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


Earthquake location 17.9423S, -66.8395WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:49:40 / 7:49 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 23:49:40 / January 11, 2020 @ 11:49 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2020011032. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20011067, us70006yjp, pr2020011032. Exact location of event, depth 8 km, -66.8395° West, 17.9423° North.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gurabo, San Juan, San Lorenzo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-seven, in the last 10 days two hundred and sixty-nine, in the past 30 days three hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8395° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9423° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km S of Tallaboa, 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 23:49:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-12 00:13:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 177 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 434 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 ,pt,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 0.0515 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 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 pr2020011032 Id of event.
Event Code 2020011032 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20011067,us70006yjp,pr2020011032, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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