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Light earthquake, 4.84 mag has occurred near San Antonio in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on September 25, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.086S, -67.2033WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.84 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from San Antonio in Puerto Rico. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 25/09/19 / 2019-09-25 00:12:09 / September 25, 2019 @ 12:12 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.2033 West, latitude 19.086 North, depth = 12 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: pr2019268001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19268050, us70005kxc, pr2019268001. The 4.84-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:12:09 / 8:12 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 99 km (61 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Lares (c. 7 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barceloneta, Mayagüez, Las Marías (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-four, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days sixty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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: 65 km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2033° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.086° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km N 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 2019-09-25 00:12:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-25 01:53:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 119 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 412 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6253 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2019268001 Id of event.
Event Code 2019268001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19268050,us70005kxc,pr2019268001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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