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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9719S, -67.2106WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 54 kilometers (34 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 23:32:39 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/09/19 / 2019-09-24 03:32:39 / September 24, 2019 @ 3:32 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us60005mjd. Ids that are associated to the event: pt19267001, us60005mjd. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -67.2106° West, latitude 18.9719° North, depth = 10 km.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puerto Real, Cabo Rojo, Manatí (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-two 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 54 km NNW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2106° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9719° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54km NNW of San Antonio, 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 2019-09-24 03:32:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-24 03:54:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 147 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.4 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 419 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 0.753 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60005mjd Id of event.
Event Code 60005mjd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19267001,us60005mjd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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