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Minor earthquake, 3.25 mag strikes near Culebra in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.953166666667S, -65.349WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 16.66 km, -65.349° West, 18.953166666667° North. Unique identifier: pr71471143. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71471143. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/01/25 / 2025-01-20 03:14:30 / January 20, 2025 @ 3:14 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:14:30 / 3:14 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16.66 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Loíza (c. 4 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Río Grande, Charlotte Amalie, Loíza (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 72 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.25 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.349° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.953166666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72 km N of Culebra, 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 2025-01-20 03:14:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-20 03:42:05 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 162 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6453 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 239 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 pr71471143 Id of event.
Event Code 71471143 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71471143, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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