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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Guanica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.863S, -66.8703WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Guanica in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 20.03 km (12 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:52:51 / 11:52 pm (local time epicenter). 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: 20/02/20 / 2020-02-20 03:52:51 / February 20, 2020 @ 3:52 am. Exact location of event, depth 20.03 km, -66.8703° West, 17.863° North. Unique identifier: us70007td7. Ids that are associated to the event: us70007td7.

Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toa Baja, Campanilla, Pájaros.

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days eighty-nine, in the past 30 days four hundred and sixty-six and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 12 km SSE of Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8703° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.863° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 12km SSE 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 2020-02-20 03:52:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-20 04:08:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.247 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 259 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 0.176 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70007td7 Id of event.
Event Code 70007td7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007td7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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