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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 20 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 14, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8606S, -66.847WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -66.847° West, latitude 17.8606° North, depth = 11 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/01/20 / 2020-01-14 22:27:43 / January 14, 2020 @ 10:27 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 18:27:43 / 6:27 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2020014021. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006zxe, pr2020014021. The epicenter was at a depth of 11 km (7 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ingenio, Candelaria Arenas, Candelaria (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 30 km (19 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 20 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.847° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8606° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km 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 22:27:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-14 23:05:21 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 4.2 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 287 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1189 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 231 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 pr2020014021 Id of event.
Event Code 2020014021 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006zxe,pr2020014021, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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