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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Guánica in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9601S, -66.9471WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Guánica in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 05:52:34 / 5:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -66.9471° West, 17.9601° North, depth 9 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/06/20 / 2020-06-13 05:52:34 / June 13, 2020 @ 5:52 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2020165002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt20165050, us6000ab4r, pr2020165002.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sabana Seca, Aguas Buenas, Arroyo. The epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Guayama (c. 21 600 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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 seven, in the last 10 days thirty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-one and in the last 365 days two thousand, one hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km WSW of Guánica, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9471° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9601° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km WSW of Guánica, 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 2020-06-13 05:52:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-13 06:35:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 117 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.8 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.027 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 379 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 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.0695 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 pr2020165002 Id of event.
Event Code 2020165002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20165050,us6000ab4r,pr2020165002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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