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Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Rincon in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on February 2, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4493S, -67.7806WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Rincon in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:11:42 / 7:11 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.7806° West, latitude 18.4493° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: pr.2020033002. Event ids that are associated: us60007mee, pr.2020033002. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/02/20 / 2020-02-02 00:11:42 / February 2, 2020 @ 12:11 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maricao, Quebradillas, Lajas. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 eighteen, in the last 10 days ninety-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km NW of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.7806° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4493° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km NW of Rincon, 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 2020-02-02 00:11:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-02 01:12:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 20 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 253 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6697 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 156 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 pr.2020033002 Id of event.
Event Code .2020033002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007mee,pr.2020033002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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