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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Penuelas in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.0656S, -66.7292WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Penuelas in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 22:08:00 / 10:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.7292° West, latitude 18.0656° North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007btb. Id of event: us60007btb. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/01/20 / 2020-01-21 02:08:00 / January 21, 2020 @ 2:08 am.

The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Canovanas, Santa Barbara, Las Piedras (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-four, in the last 10 days three hundred and eighty-eight, in the past 30 days six hundred and fifty-three and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 1 km NW of Penuelas, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7292° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0656° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NW of Penuelas, 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 2020-01-21 02:08:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-21 02:26:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 298 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 0.01 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us60007btb Id of event.
Event Code 60007btb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007btb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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