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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 14 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9716S, -66.7255WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/01/20 / 2020-01-13 02:52:30 / January 13, 2020 @ 2:52 am. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:52:30 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7255 West, latitude 17.9716 North, depth = 16 km. Id of earthquake: pr2020013000. Event ids that are associated: pt20013000, us70006z0a, pr2020013000. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 16 km (10 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Carolina, Yabucoa, Juncos (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days two hundred and ninety-four, in the past 30 days three hundred and fifty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 14 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7255° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9716° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km 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 2020-01-13 02:52:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-13 03:29:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 45 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.8 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 311 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1389 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 209 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 pr2020013000 Id of event.
Event Code 2020013000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20013000,us70006z0a,pr2020013000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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