Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near La Parguera in Puerto Rico

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico on Friday. Global time and date of event 03/07/20 / 2020-07-03 21:00:07 / July 3, 2020 @ 9:00 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:00:07 / 9:00 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ahk6. Unique identifier: us7000ahk6. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -67.0437° West, latitude 17.8643° North, depth = 10 km.

The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Comerío, Vega Baja, Corozal (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and twelve, in the past 30 days two hundred and four and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 12 km S of La Parguera, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.0437° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.8643° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km S 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 21:00:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-03 21:19:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	46	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.455	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	324	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	0.104	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.82 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	108	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	us7000ahk6	Id of event.
Event Code	7000ahk6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000ahk6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.4 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-67.0437° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

17.8643° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

12 km S 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 21:00:07

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-07-03 21:19:50

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

5.7

The maximum reported intensity for the event.

MMI

3.455

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

324

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

0.104

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

Root Mean Square

0.82 sec

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

Azimuthal Gap

108

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

us7000ahk6

Id of event.

Event Code

7000ahk6

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

Event IDS

,us7000ahk6,

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

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