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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.7823S, -66.8364WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 22 kilometers (14 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Id of earthquake: us60007a3x. Event ids that are associated: us60007a3x. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 12:56:59 / 12:56 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.8364 West, latitude 17.7823 North, depth = 10 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/01/20 / 2020-01-18 16:56:59 / January 18, 2020 @ 4:56 pm.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toa Alta, Patillas, Ceiba (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-five, in the last 10 days three hundred and eighty-four, in the past 30 days five hundred and seventy-five and in the last 365 days six hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 22 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8364° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7823° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 22km SSE of Guanica, 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 16:56:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-18 17:02:33 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 259 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 0.237 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 242 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 us60007a3x Id of event.
Event Code 60007a3x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007a3x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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