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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 11 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8928S, -66.7303WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -66.7303° West, latitude 17.8928° North, depth = 5 km. The temblor was detected at 21:21:14 / 9:21 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: pt19363052, us70006s2i. Unique identifier: us70006s2i. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/12/19 / 2019-12-29 01:21:14 / December 29, 2019 @ 1:21 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Canovanas, Santa Barbara, Humacao.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 11 km S of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.7303° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8928° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km S of Tallaboa, 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 2019-12-29 01:21:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-29 01:39:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 134 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5 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 436 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 0.19 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us70006s2i Id of event.
Event Code 70006s2i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19363052,us70006s2i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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