A 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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