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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Stella in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.3265S, -67.2457WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Stella in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: us10005jnj. Event ids that are associated: us10005jnj. Exact location, longitude -67.2457° West, latitude 18.3265° North, depth = 25.3 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/05/16 / 2016-05-24 18:54:32 / May 24, 2016 @ 6:54 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25.3 km (16 miles). The temblor was reported at 14:54:32 / 2:54 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Morovis, Juana Díaz, Villalba. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 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 five, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 0 km NNE of Stella, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2457° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3265° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km NNE of Stella, 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 2016-05-24 18:54:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-24 19:41:23 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 7 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 249 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 0.145 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us10005jnj Id of event.
Event Code 10005jnj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005jnj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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