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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Culebra in Puerto Rico

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: at00of723c. Ids that are associated to the event: at00of723c. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/10/16 / 2016-10-17 13:42:48 / October 17, 2016 @ 1:42 pm. The temblor was detected at 09:42:48 / 9:42 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 104 km (65 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 104 km, -65.382° West, 18.745° North. A tsunami warning has been issued near Culebra in Puerto Rico (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Caguas, Bayamón (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 49 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.382° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.745° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	104 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km N of Culebra, 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	2016-10-17 13:42:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-10-17 13:53:59	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	1	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	260	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	30	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4446661	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	165.599986752	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	at00of723c	Id of event.
Event Code	00of723c	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00of723c,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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