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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 24, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9227S, -66.7025WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: us6000d2ll. Ids that are associated to the event: pt20359002, us6000d2ll. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/12/20 / 2020-12-24 16:56:39 / December 24, 2020 @ 4:56 pm. The temblor was detected at 16:56:39 / 4:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.7025° West, 17.9227° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 87 km (54 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Isidro, Canovanas, Santa Barbara. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7025° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9227° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km S of Tallaboa, 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 16:56:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-24 17:18:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 145 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.569 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 439 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 ,pt,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 0.11 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 37 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 us6000d2ll Id of event.
Event Code 6000d2ll An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20359002,us6000d2ll, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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