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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9237S, -66.8669WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 20:05:55 / 8:05 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/01/20 / 2020-01-19 00:05:55 / January 19, 2020 @ 12:05 am. Event id: us60007abw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20019050, us60007abw. The epicenter was at a depth of 10.23 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -66.8669° West, 17.9237° North, depth 10.23 km.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cataño, Guaynabo, Caguas. Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 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-five, in the last 10 days three hundred and eighty-four, in the past 30 days five hundred and eighty-nine and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 6 km SE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8669° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9237° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.23 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km 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 2020-01-19 00:05:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-19 00:19:18 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 39 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.4 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 350 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 0.122 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 68 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60007abw Id of event.
Event Code 60007abw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20019050,us60007abw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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