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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Hatillo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1166S, -66.7921WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 17/07/17 / 2017-07-17 02:18:59 / July 17, 2017 @ 2:18 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 22:18:59 / 10:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.7921 West, latitude 19.1166 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us20009wug. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt17198001, us20009wug.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Corozal, Añasco, Toa Alta (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-one 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 69 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7921° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1166° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km N of Hatillo, 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 2017-07-17 02:18:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-17 02:38:42 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 3.8 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 342 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 1.172 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 39 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 us20009wug Id of event.
Event Code 20009wug An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt17198001,us20009wug, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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