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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Guanica in Puerto Rico

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 03:59:57 / 3:59 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.8993° West, 17.9827° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 07:59:57 / January 12, 2020 @ 7:59 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70006yne. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20012004, us70006yne.

The epicenter was 100 km (62 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Juan, Cataño, Caguas (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-three, in the last 10 days two hundred and seventy-nine, in the past 30 days three hundred and thirty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km NE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8993° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9827° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km NE of Guanica, 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 07:59:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-12 08:12:09	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	30	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.5	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	353	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	,pt,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	0.138	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	173	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	us70006yne	Id of event.
Event Code	70006yne	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt20012004,us70006yne,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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