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Minor earthquake: M3.22 quake has struck near Culebra in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) strikes 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 11:35:27 / 11:35 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/02/25 / 2025-02-01 11:35:27 / February 1, 2025 @ 11:35 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.16 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -65.375166666667° West, 18.9075° North, depth 45.16 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr71471948. Unique identifier: pr71471948.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Isidro, Charlotte Amalie, Ceiba (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from San Isidro (c. 8 100 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 67 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.22 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.375166666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9075° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45.16 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	67 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	2025-02-01 11:35:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-01 12:59:44	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	160	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6801	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	256	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	pr71471948	Id of event.
Event Code	71471948	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71471948,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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