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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Guanica in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 4, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.7335S, -66.838WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.05 km (2 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/02/20 / 2020-02-04 15:12:10 / February 4, 2020 @ 3:12 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -66.838 West, latitude 17.7335 North, depth = 3.05 km. Event id: us60007pfi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us60007pfi. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:12:10 / 11:12 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Naranjito, Isabela, Corozal (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-five, in the past 30 days nine hundred and ninety-three and in the last 365 days one thousand and ninety 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 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 27 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.838° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.7335° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27km 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 2020-02-04 15:12:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-04 15:22:56 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 2.719 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 246 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 0.285 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us60007pfi Id of event.
Event Code 60007pfi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007pfi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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