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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9264S, -66.6847WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.6847 West, latitude 17.9264 North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/01/20 / 2020-01-07 14:23:39 / January 7, 2020 @ 2:23 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us70006vr9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006vr9. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:23:39 / 10:23 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 86 km (53 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 12 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Humacao, Carolina, Las Piedras (min 5000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km SSE of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6847° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9264° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SSE 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 2020-01-07 14:23:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-07 17:00:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 298 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 ,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 0.137 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006vr9 Id of event.
Event Code 70006vr9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006vr9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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