Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Indios in Puerto Rico

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20014003. Id of event: pt20014003. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 08:26:41 / 8:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.802 West, latitude 17.92 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 14/01/20 / 2020-01-14 12:26:41 / January 14, 2020 @ 12:26 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Carolina, Juncos, Yabucoa (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 8 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.802° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.92° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	8km SSE 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	2020-01-14 12:26:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-14 12:31:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.9	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	371	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	pt	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	pt20014003	Id of event.
Event Code	20014003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt20014003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.9 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-66.802° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

17.92° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

8km SSE 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

2020-01-14 12:26:41

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-01-14 12:31:07

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

-240

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

4.9

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

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

371

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.

Sources

,pt,

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

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

pt20014003

Id of event.

Event Code

20014003

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,pt20014003,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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