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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 10 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 17.9015S, -66.8377WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Maria Antonia in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000b2fi. Unique identifier: us6000b2fi. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/07/20 / 2020-07-23 04:44:16 / July 23, 2020 @ 4:44 am. Exact location, longitude -66.8377° West, latitude 17.9015° North, depth = 10 km. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:44:16 / 4:44 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caguas, Bayamón, Sabana Seca. Event epicenter was 91 km (56 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 10 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.8377° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9015° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10 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 2020-07-23 04:44:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-23 04:52:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.3 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 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 0.128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 us6000b2fi Id of event.
Event Code 6000b2fi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b2fi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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