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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9113S, -66.852WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 12 km, -66.852° West, 17.9113° North. The temblor was picked up at 14:46:18 / 2:46 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pt20156002, us6000a5x0, pr2020156011. Unique identifier: pr2020156011. Global time and date of event 04/06/20 / 2020-06-04 14:46:18 / June 4, 2020 @ 2:46 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 91 km (57 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Levittown, Guaynabo, Caguas. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 8 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.852° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9113° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km SSE of Maria Antonia, 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 2020-06-04 14:46:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-04 15:31:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 67 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.579 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 308 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 ,pt,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0694 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 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 pr2020156011 Id of event.
Event Code 2020156011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20156002,us6000a5x0,pr2020156011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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