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Light earthquake 4 mag, 9 km SE of Guanica, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9058S, -66.8371WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: us70006zgr, pr2020014001. Unique identifier: pr2020014001. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 8 km, -66.8371° West, 17.9058° North. Global time and date of event 14/01/20 / 2020-01-14 01:40:53 / January 14, 2020 @ 1:40 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:40:53 / 9:40 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 26 km (16 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sabana Seca, Ingenio, Patillas (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 9 km SE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8371° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9058° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km SE of Guanica, 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 2020-01-14 01:40:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-14 02:40:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 43 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 265 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0811 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 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 pr2020014001 Id of event.
Event Code 2020014001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006zgr,pr2020014001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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