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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 12 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8851S, -66.8038WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: us70006z0c. Event ids that are associated: pt20013001, us70006z0c. The temblor was reported at 23:05:19 / 11:05 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -66.8038° West, 17.8851° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/01/20 / 2020-01-13 03:05:19 / January 13, 2020 @ 3:05 am.

Event epicenter was 98 km (61 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Juan, Gurabo, Maunabo. 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days two hundred and ninety-two, in the past 30 days three hundred and fifty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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 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: 12 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8038° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8851° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km S of Indios, 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 2020-01-13 03:05:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-13 03:20:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 117 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.7 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 381 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 0.131 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us70006z0c Id of event.
Event Code 70006z0c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20013001,us70006z0c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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