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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 18, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1025S, -67.2219WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/02/20 / 2020-02-18 23:15:45 / February 18, 2020 @ 11:15 pm. The temblor was reported at 19:15:45 / 7:15 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007sr3. Id of event: us70007sr3. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.2219 West, latitude 19.1025 North, depth = 10 km. 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).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Añasco, San Sebastián, Arecibo.

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 68 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2219° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1025° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km N of San Antonio, 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 2020-02-18 23:15:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-18 23:37:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 285 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 0.64 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 135 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 us70007sr3 Id of event.
Event Code 70007sr3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007sr3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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