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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Indios in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 24, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.93S, -66.814WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, -66.814° West, 17.93° North, depth 5 km. Global time and date of event 24/12/20 / 2020-12-24 17:33:46 / December 24, 2020 @ 5:33 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pt20359003. Event ids that are associated: pt20359003. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:33:46 / 5:33 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Juncos, Yabucoa, Trujillo Alto (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 96 km (59 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 7 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.814° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.93° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km S of Indios, 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 2020-12-24 17:33:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-24 17:38:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level 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 355 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pt The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 pt20359003 Id of event.
Event Code 20359003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20359003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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