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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.937S, -66.713WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 06:01:28 / 6:01 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/01/20 / 2020-01-13 10:01:28 / January 13, 2020 @ 10:01 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.713 West, latitude 17.937 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20013002. Id of event: pt20013002.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Humacao, Carolina, Las Piedras (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and ninety-three, in the past 30 days three hundred and fifty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and one 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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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. 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: 6 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.713° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.937° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km 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 10:01:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-13 10:06:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 312 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 12 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 pt20013002 Id of event.
Event Code 20013002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20013002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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