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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Indios in Puerto Rico

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr2020011011. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006ye5, pr2020011011. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:48:15 / 9:48 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 13:48:15 / January 11, 2020 @ 1:48 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 9 km, -66.8318° West, 17.9996° North.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Juan, Cataño, Caguas (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 39 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-two, in the last 10 days two hundred and fourty-eight, in the past 30 days three hundred and four and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8318° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9996° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-11 13:48:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-11 18:03:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	86	The total number of felt reports
CDI	6.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	324	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	pr	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0534	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	161	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pr2020011011	Id of event.
Event Code	2020011011	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006ye5,pr2020011011,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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