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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag has occurred near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 11, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.895S, -66.838WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:49:38 / 7:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 23:49:38 / January 11, 2020 @ 11:49 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: pt20011067. Unique identifier: pt20011067. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.838° West, 17.895° North.

The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yabucoa, Trujillo Alto, Maunabo.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-five, in the last 10 days two hundred and sixty-seven, in the past 30 days three hundred and nineteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-two 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 10 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.838° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.895° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SSE of Maria Antonia, 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 23:49:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-11 23:54:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.9 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 371 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pt The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 pt20011067 Id of event.
Event Code 20011067 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20011067, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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