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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.1278S, -67.2475WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 55 kilometers (34 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 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:12:39 / 10:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -67.2475° West, 19.1278° North, depth 8 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Global time and date of event 26/09/19 / 2019-09-26 02:12:39 / September 26, 2019 @ 2:12 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pt19269050, us70005lgr, pr2019269002. Unique identifier: pr2019269002.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Sebastián, Arecibo, Rincón (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hatillo (c. 5 600 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eighty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and four and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 55 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.2475° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1278° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km 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 2019-09-26 02:12:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-26 03:19:21 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 27 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6742 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210 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 pr2019269002 Id of event.
Event Code 2019269002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19269050,us70005lgr,pr2019269002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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