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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on January 20, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.9941S, -66.718WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 0 kilometers (0 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us60007b4l. Ids that are associated to the event: pt20020002, us60007b4l. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:26:20 / 1:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -66.718° West, 17.9941° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/01/20 / 2020-01-20 05:26:20 / January 20, 2020 @ 5:26 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Isidro, Canovanas, Humacao.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days three hundred and eighty-four, in the past 30 days six hundred and twenty-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and eighty-one 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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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 0 km WSW of Tallaboa, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.718° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.9941° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 0km WSW of Tallaboa, 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 2020-01-20 05:26:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-20 05:43:52 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 74 The total number of felt reports
CDI 5.6 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 381 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 ,pt,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 0.047 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60007b4l Id of event.
Event Code 60007b4l An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt20020002,us60007b4l, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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