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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 28 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 5, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.535S, -67.4228WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 111.34 km (69 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70008pk4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008pk4. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:01:09 / 7:01 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/04/20 / 2020-04-05 23:01:09 / April 5, 2020 @ 11:01 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.4228 West, latitude 18.535 North, depth = 111.34 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Florida, Estancias de Florida, Peñuelas. Epicenter of the earthquake was 48 km (30 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days ninety-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty-one and in the last 365 days two thousand, six hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 28 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4228° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.535° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 111.34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km NW of Rincon, 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 2020-04-05 23:01:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-05 23:14:54 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 3.102 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 272 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 0.303 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 145 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 us70008pk4 Id of event.
Event Code 70008pk4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008pk4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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