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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/02/25 / 2025-02-21 12:43:56 / February 21, 2025 @ 12:43 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.5001 West, latitude 19.1237 North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was reported at 12:43:56 / 12:43 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pf7z. Id of event: us7000pf7z.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Toa Alta, Cataño, Quebradillas. Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 73 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.5001° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1237° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	73 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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	2025-02-21 12:43:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-21 12:58:36	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	222	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.644	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	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000pf7z	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pf7z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pf7z,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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