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Minor earthquake 3.49 mag, 5 km E of Villalba, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.128S, -66.4393WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.49 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Villalba in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr2025024000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2025024000. The temblor was picked up at 19:45:26 / 7:45 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 142 km (88 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.4393 West, latitude 18.128 North, depth = 142 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/01/25 / 2025-01-24 19:45:26 / January 24, 2025 @ 7:45 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguadilla, Luquillo, Puerto Real (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 52 km (32 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km E of Villalba, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.49 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.4393° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.128° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 142 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km E of Villalba, 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 2025-01-24 19:45:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-24 20:11:19 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 187 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 0.1496 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 125 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 pr2025024000 Id of event.
Event Code 2025024000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2025024000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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