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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Fuig in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 14, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9918S, -66.9392WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Fuig in Puerto Rico. The temblor was detected at 10:48:09 / 10:48 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/01/20 / 2020-01-14 14:48:09 / January 14, 2020 @ 2:48 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -66.9392° West, 17.9918° North, depth 10 km. Unique identifier: us70006zmj. Ids that are associated to the event: pt20014006, us70006zmj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 94 km (59 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 31 km (20 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Guaynabo, Levittown, Bayamón.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 thirty-four, in the last 10 days three hundred and thirty-five, in the past 30 days four hundred and seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 2 km W of Fuig, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9392° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9918° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2km W of Fuig, 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 14:48:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-14 15:07:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 28 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.3 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 326 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 0.074 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006zmj Id of event.
Event Code 70006zmj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20014006,us70006zmj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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