Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Puerto Rico region

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes Puerto Rico region kilometers (0 miles) from Puerto Rico region on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.608 West, latitude 18.97 North, depth = 5 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 01:42:00 / 1:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/02/20 / 2020-02-02 01:42:00 / February 2, 2020 @ 1:42 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pt20033053. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20033053.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Sebastián, Punta Cana, Añasco (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 94 km (59 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days one thousand and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.608° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.97° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Puerto Rico region	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-02-02 01:42:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-02 01:47:16	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	312	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	27	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	pt20033053	Id of event.
Event Code	20033053	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt20033053,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

4.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

-67.608° West

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

18.97° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

5 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

Puerto Rico region

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2020-02-02 01:42:00

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2020-02-02 01:47:16

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

Timezone offset

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

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

312

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

pt20033053

Id of event.

Event Code

20033053

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

Event IDS

,pt20033053,

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

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