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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Indios in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8938S, -66.7979WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Event id: us70006ye5. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006ye5. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 13:48:13 / January 11, 2020 @ 1:48 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 2.49 km (2 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:48:13 / 9:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.7979° West, latitude 17.8938° North, depth = 2.49 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Trujillo Alto, San Juan, Gurabo. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 97 km (60 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7979° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8938° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.49 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 13:48:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-11 14:00:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 326 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.111 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 76 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006ye5 Id of event.
Event Code 70006ye5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006ye5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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