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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 25, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8202S, -66.808WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: us60007fqz. Unique identifier: us60007fqz. 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: 25/01/20 / 2020-01-25 14:17:38 / January 25, 2020 @ 2:17 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 10:17:38 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.808 West, latitude 17.8202 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caguas, Ingenio, Dorado (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 30 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days three hundred and sixteen, in the past 30 days seven hundred and seventy-one and in the last 365 days eight hundred and twelve 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 19 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.808° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8202° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km 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 2020-01-25 14:17:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-25 14:27:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.5 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.206 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 273 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 0.194 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 172 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 us60007fqz Id of event.
Event Code 60007fqz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007fqz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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