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Light earthquake, 4.06 mag was detected near Indios in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9773S, -66.8193WA light earthquake magnitude 4.06 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.8193° West, latitude 17.9773° North, depth = 11 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/06/20 / 2020-06-01 12:05:51 / June 1, 2020 @ 12:05 pm. The 4.06-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:05:51 / 12:05 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000a3ml, pr2020153018. Id of event: pr2020153018.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caguas, Guaynabo, Levittown (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and six and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 1 km S of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8193° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9773° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km S of Indios, 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 2020-06-01 12:05:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-01 12:50:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 33 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.25 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 269 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0599 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2020153018 Id of event.
Event Code 2020153018 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a3ml,pr2020153018, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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