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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 11 km SSW of Guanica, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.8731S, -66.9441WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Saturday. 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: 25/01/20 / 2020-01-25 08:00:46 / January 25, 2020 @ 8:00 am. Exact location, longitude -66.9441° West, latitude 17.8731° North, depth = 5.92 km. Id of earthquake: us60007fjh. Event ids that are associated: pt20025050, us60007fjh. The temblor was detected at 04:00:46 / 4:00 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.92 km (4 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Antonio, Toa Alta, Ceiba. Epicenter of the earthquake was 38 km (24 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 twelve, in the last 10 days three hundred and nine, in the past 30 days seven hundred and sixty-three and in the last 365 days eight hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km SSW of Guanica, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9441° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.8731° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSW 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 2020-01-25 08:00:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-25 08:10:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 18 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.4 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 281 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 0.135 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us60007fjh Id of event.
Event Code 60007fjh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20025050,us60007fjh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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