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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Isabela in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.054S, -67.16WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -67.16 West, latitude 19.054 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 23:51:36 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/09/19 / 2019-09-27 03:51:36 / September 27, 2019 @ 3:51 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19270000. Id of event: pt19270000.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Utuado, Florida, Manatí (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 62 km NNW of Isabela, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.16° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.054° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km 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 2019-09-27 03:51:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-27 03:55:19 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 354 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 21 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 183.599985312 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 pt19270000 Id of event.
Event Code 19270000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19270000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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