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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 14, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8481S, -66.8289WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8289 West, latitude 17.8481 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/01/20 / 2020-01-14 16:44:19 / January 14, 2020 @ 4:44 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:44:19 / 12:44 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006zpr. Unique identifier: us70006zpr.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caguas, Ingenio, Candelaria Arenas (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 29 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

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

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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: 15 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8289° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8481° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SSE of Maria Antonia, 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 2020-01-14 16:44:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-14 16:56:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 5 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.7 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 274 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 ,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 0.135 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210 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 us70006zpr Id of event.
Event Code 70006zpr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006zpr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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