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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Rincon in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.477S, -67.4228WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.4228 West, latitude 18.477 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:33:13 / 10:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/10/17 / 2017-10-14 14:33:13 / October 14, 2017 @ 2:33 pm. Unique identifier: us1000as59. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000as59. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barceloneta, Jayuya, Florida. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 23 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.4228° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.477° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km NW of Rincon, 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 2017-10-14 14:33:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-14 15:06:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 284 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 3.267 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 108 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 us1000as59 Id of event.
Event Code 1000as59 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000as59, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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