Minor earthquake, 3.19 mag was detected near Indios in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico. The 3.19-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:48:04 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 12/03/25 / 2025-03-12 20:48:04 / March 12, 2025 @ 8:48 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8093 West, latitude 17.9585 North, depth = 14 km. Unique identifier: pr2025071003. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pyga, pr2025071003.

Earthquake epicenter was 21 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Candelaria, Dorado, Campanilla.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 4 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.19 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8093° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9585° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km SSE of Indios, 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	2025-03-12 20:48:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-12 22:02:04	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.008	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	157	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	,us,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0718	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	169	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	pr2025071003	Id of event.
Event Code	2025071003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pyga,pr2025071003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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