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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Ponce in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 27, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.986S, -66.662WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Ponce in Puerto Rico on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.662 West, latitude 17.986 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 27/01/20 / 2020-01-27 06:53:22 / January 27, 2020 @ 6:53 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 02:53:22 / 2:53 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pt20027003. Event ids that are associated: pt20027003. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Río Grande, Loíza, San Isidro (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and sixty, in the past 30 days eight hundred and eleven and in the last 365 days eight hundred and sixty-five 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. 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. 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: 5 km WSW of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.662° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.986° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km WSW 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 06:53:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-27 06:57:18 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 326 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pt The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 pt20027003 Id of event.
Event Code 20027003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20027003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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