Minor earthquake, 3.26 mag was detected near San Juan in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.26 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 126.11 km (78 miles). Unique identifier: pr71471083. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71471083. Global time and date of event 19/01/25 / 2025-01-19 05:02:47 / January 19, 2025 @ 5:02 am UTC/GMT. The 3.26-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:02:47 / 5:02 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.035 West, latitude 18.443666666667 North, depth = 126.11 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 8 km (5 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Adjuntas, Culebra, Adjuntas.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 7 km ESE of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.26 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.035° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.443666666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	126.11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	7 km ESE 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 05:02:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-19 05:26:45	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	164	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3352	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	178	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	pr71471083	Id of event.
Event Code	71471083	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71471083,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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