Minor earthquake: M3.85 quake has struck near Indios in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.85 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14 km (9 miles). The 3.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:34:44 / 2:34 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -66.8091 West, latitude 17.96 North, depth = 14 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/03/25 / 2025-03-12 14:34:44 / March 12, 2025 @ 2:34 pm. Id of earthquake: pr2025071001. Event ids that are associated: us6000pybj, pr2025071001.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Caguas, Guaynabo, Levittown. Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 85 km (53 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 3 km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8091° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.96° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 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 14:34:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-12 15:31:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	17	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.98	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	235	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0717	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	168	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	pr2025071001	Id of event.
Event Code	2025071001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pybj,pr2025071001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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