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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 24, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9335S, -66.8425WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/12/20 / 2020-12-24 11:17:00 / December 24, 2020 @ 11:17 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -66.8425° West, 17.9335° North, depth 12 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000d2j8, pr2020359029. Unique identifier: pr2020359029. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). The temblor was detected at 11:17:00 / 11:17 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayamón, Sabana Seca, Patillas (min 5000 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 eighteen, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days sixty-two and in the last 365 days two thousand, eight hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 SE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8425° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9335° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km SE of Maria Antonia, 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 11:17:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-24 12:57:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 11 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 2.873 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 251 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2049 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 pr2020359029 Id of event.
Event Code 2020359029 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d2j8,pr2020359029, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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