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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9344S, -66.8708WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 01/02/20 / 2020-02-01 10:05:48 / February 1, 2020 @ 10:05 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.8708° West, 17.9344° North. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:05:48 / 6:05 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us60007m2j. Ids that are associated to the event: us60007m2j.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Bayamón, Patillas, Sabana Seca (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 91 km (57 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-seven, in the past 30 days nine hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days one thousand and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 5 km SE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8708° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9344° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km 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 2020-02-01 10:05:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-01 10:15:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 260 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 ,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 0.112 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 198 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 us60007m2j Id of event.
Event Code 60007m2j An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007m2j, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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