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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Palmarejo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.0078S, -67.0653WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Palmarejo in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -67.0653° West, latitude 18.0078° North, depth = 5.93 km. Global time and date of event 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 23:33:43 / January 12, 2020 @ 11:33 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 5.93 km (4 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:33:43 / 7:33 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us70006yyg. Unique identifier: us70006yyg.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Vega Alta, Corozal (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km SSE of Palmarejo, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.0653° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0078° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SSE of Palmarejo, 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 2020-01-12 23:33:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-12 23:54:11 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 3.4 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 246 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 0.026 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.59 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us70006yyg Id of event.
Event Code 70006yyg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006yyg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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