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Light earthquake 4.05 mag, 28 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.3646S, -67.3778WA light earthquake magnitude 4.05 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Unique identifier: pr2020096046. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008pk4, pr2020096046. Exact location, longitude -67.3778° West, latitude 18.3646° North, depth = 123 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 123 km (76 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/04/20 / 2020-04-05 23:01:09 / April 5, 2020 @ 11:01 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.05-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:01:09 / 7:01 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ponce, Barceloneta, Florida (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, 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 twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 28 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.05 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.3778° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3646° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 123 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 2020-04-06 00:01:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.827 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 257 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.1033 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 143 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020096046 Id of event.
Event Code 2020096046 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008pk4,pr2020096046, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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