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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 10 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 21:10:14 / January 12, 2020 @ 9:10 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -66.813 West, latitude 17.9393 North, depth = 7 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006yw4, pr2020012015. Id of event: pr2020012015. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 17:10:14 / 5:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cataño, Levittown, Guaynabo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (54 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), 88 km (54 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 10 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.813° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9393° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km 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	2020-01-12 21:10:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-12 21:37:54	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	12	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	275	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0753	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	201	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	pr2020012015	Id of event.
Event Code	2020012015	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006yw4,pr2020012015,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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