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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on June 4, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.899S, -66.855WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 14:46:17 / 2:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/06/20 / 2020-06-04 14:46:17 / June 4, 2020 @ 2:46 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pt20156002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20156002. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.855 West, latitude 17.899 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Guaynabo, Caguas.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fifty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-four and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.855° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.899° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km SSE of Maria Antonia, 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 2020-06-04 14:46:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-04 14:51:54 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 33 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 183.599985312 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 pt20156002 Id of event.
Event Code 20156002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20156002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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