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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Ponce in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9356S, -66.5821WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Ponce 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 picked up at 06:45:17 / 6:45 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000a9r7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000a9r7. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/06/20 / 2020-06-11 06:45:17 / June 11, 2020 @ 6:45 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.5821 West, latitude 17.9356 North, depth = 11.14 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11.14 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). The epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 9 km (6 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Isidro, Canovanas, Santa Barbara (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-one and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

Questions or comments?

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 Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.5821° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9356° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km SSE of Ponce, 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 2020-06-11 06:45:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-11 06:55:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 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 259 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 0.109 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us6000a9r7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000a9r7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a9r7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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