Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near La Parguera in Puerto Rico

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 9 kilometers (6 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico on Friday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.54 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 21:17:38 / 9:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/07/20 / 2020-07-03 21:17:38 / July 3, 2020 @ 9:17 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.0054 West, latitude 17.9013 North, depth = 12.54 km. Id of earthquake: us7000ahkj. Event ids that are associated: us7000ahkj.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Naranjito, Cayey (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirteen, in the past 30 days two hundred and five and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.0054° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9013° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12.54 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km SSE of La Parguera, 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	2020-07-03 21:17:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-03 21:32:19	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.418	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	273	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	0.077	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.66 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	171	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	us7000ahkj	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ahkj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ahkj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.2 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-67.0054° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

17.9013° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

12.54 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

9 km SSE of La Parguera, 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

2020-07-03 21:17:38

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-07-03 21:32:19

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

3.8

The maximum reported intensity for the event.

MMI

3.418

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

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

273

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.077

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.66 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

171

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us7000ahkj

Id of event.

Event Code

7000ahkj

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us7000ahkj,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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