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Minor earthquake: M3.51 quake has struck near Culebra in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on March 12, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9766S, -65.2916WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.51 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. The temblor was reported at 07:43:10 / 7:43 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2025071000. Unique identifier: pr2025071000. Global time and date of event 12/03/25 / 2025-03-12 07:43:10 / March 12, 2025 @ 7:43 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 16 km, -65.2916° West, 18.9766° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 16 km (10 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fajardo, Luquillo, Charlotte Amalie.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 74 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.51 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2916° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9766° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74 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 2025-03-12 07:43:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-12 08:11:52 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 190 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6692 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 266 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 pr2025071000 Id of event.
Event Code 2025071000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2025071000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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