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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 13 km S of La Parguera, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 29, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.8522S, -67.0591WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from La Parguera in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -67.0591° West, 17.8522° North. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:29:58 / 1:29 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/09/20 / 2020-09-29 13:29:58 / September 29, 2020 @ 1:29 pm UTC/GMT. 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: us6000c2kg. Unique identifier: us6000c2kg.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corozal, Aibonito, Barranquitas. Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop).

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 fifty-four, in the past 30 days ninety-two and in the last 365 days two thousand, six hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 13 km S of La Parguera, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0591° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8522° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 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 2020-09-29 13:29:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-29 13:49:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 6 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.544 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 314 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 0.117 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us6000c2kg Id of event.
Event Code 6000c2kg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c2kg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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