Minor earthquake, 3.26 mag strikes near San Juan in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.26 (ml/mb) was reported 104 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico (65 miles) on Wednesday. Event id: pr71475228. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71475228. The temblor was reported at 09:58:00 / 9:58 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -65.885 West, latitude 19.385 North, depth = 27.71 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 27.71 km (17 miles). Global time and date of event 12/03/25 / 2025-03-12 09:58:00 / March 12, 2025 @ 9:58 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days fourty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and one 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. Each 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 104 km NNE of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.26 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.885° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.385° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	27.71 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	104 km NNE of San Juan, 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 09:58:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-12 10:47:04	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	164	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.09	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	278	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	pr71475228	Id of event.
Event Code	71475228	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71475228,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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