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Light earthquake, 4.01 mag was detected near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18S, -66.7378WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.01 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/01/20 / 2020-01-18 06:59:12 / January 18, 2020 @ 6:59 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us600079ux, pr2020018002. Unique identifier: pr2020018002. The 4.01-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:59:12 / 2:59 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -66.7378° West, latitude 18° North, depth = 5 km.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 85 km (53 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Juncos, Maunabo, Trujillo Alto (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-four, in the last 10 days three hundred and eighty-one, in the past 30 days five hundred and sixty-three and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-eight 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 0 km WSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.01 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7378° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km WSW 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 2020-01-18 06:59:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-18 07:31:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 15 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 255 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1383 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 182 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020018002 Id of event.
Event Code 2020018002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us600079ux,pr2020018002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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