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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Guayanilla in Puerto Rico

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Guayanilla in Puerto Rico. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ahkc. Id of event: us6000ahkc. Exact location of event, longitude -66.8026 West, latitude 18.0246 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 24/06/20 / 2020-06-24 02:30:59 / June 24, 2020 @ 2:30 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 02:30:59 / 2:30 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 88 km (55 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Trujillo Alto, Gurabo, San Lorenzo (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 1 km WNW of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8026° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0246° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1 km WNW of Guayanilla, 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	2020-06-24 02:30:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-06-24 02:48:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.724	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	275	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	0.033	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.18 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	146	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	us6000ahkc	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ahkc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ahkc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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