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Minor earthquake, 3.15 mag strikes near San Juan in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.138833333333S, -66.006666666667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) was reported 75 kilometers (47 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr71471058. Unique identifier: pr71471058. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.006666666667 West, latitude 19.138833333333 North, depth = 23.71 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.71 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.15-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:51:57 / 12:51 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/01/25 / 2025-01-19 00:51:57 / January 19, 2025 @ 12:51 am.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Loíza, Levittown, Cataño. Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Loíza (c. 4 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-five 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. 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: 75 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.15 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.006666666667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.138833333333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.71 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75 km N of San Juan, 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 2025-01-19 00:51:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-19 01:11:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 153 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 ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8828 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 260 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 pr71471058 Id of event.
Event Code 71471058 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71471058, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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