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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.903S, -67.12WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 19.4 km (12 miles). Exact location of event, depth 19.4 km, -67.12° West, 18.903° North. All ids that are associated to the event: pt19268051. Unique identifier: pt19268051. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:05:10 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 01:05:10 / September 25, 2019 @ 1:05 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Alta, Morovis, Ceiba. Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-one, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 45 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.12° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.903° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km NNW of Isabela, 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 2019-09-25 01:05:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-25 01:09:22 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 340 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pt The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 pt19268051 Id of event.
Event Code 19268051 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19268051, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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