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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Ponce in Puerto Rico

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.6238 West, latitude 17.9301 North, depth = 6 km. Global time and date of event 27/01/20 / 2020-01-27 05:20:39 / January 27, 2020 @ 5:20 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: pt20027002, us60007gz2, pr2020027002. Unique identifier: pr2020027002. The temblor was picked up at 01:20:39 / 1:20 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6 km (4 miles).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 81 km (50 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Isidro, Canovanas, Santa Barbara.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and fifty-nine, in the past 30 days eight hundred and eight and in the last 365 days eight hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km SSW of Ponce, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.6238° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9301° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km SSW of Ponce, 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	2020-01-27 05:20:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-27 05:47:45	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	115	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.674	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	340	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	,pt,us,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1141	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	207	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	pr2020027002	Id of event.
Event Code	2020027002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt20027002,us60007gz2,pr2020027002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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