Light earthquake, 4.05 mag has occurred near Fuig in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 8, 2020 0 Comments

A light earthquake magnitude 4.05 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Fuig in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/08/20 / 2020-08-29 16:33:45 / August 29, 2020 @ 4:33 pm. Id of earthquake: pr2020242004. Event ids that are associated: pt20242001, us7000betw, pr2020242004. The 4.05-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:33:45 / 4:33 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 7 km, -66.9743° West, 17.9626° North.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Toa Alta, San Antonio, Cidra.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days two thousand, six hundred and sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

Questions or comments?

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: 6 km WSW of Fuig, Puerto Rico.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.05 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.9743° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9626° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	7 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km WSW of Fuig, 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	2020-08-29 16:33:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-04 03:41:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	49	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.429	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	pr	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,us,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0703	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	187	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	pr2020242004	Id of event.
Event Code	2020242004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt20242001,us7000betw,pr2020242004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light earthquake, 4.05 mag has occurred near Fuig in Puerto Rico

Questions or comments?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information