Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag was detected near Vieques in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) strikes 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Vieques in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 42.05 km (26 miles). The temblor was picked up at 13:06:30 / 1:06 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 18/03/25 / 2025-03-18 13:06:30 / March 18, 2025 @ 1:06 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr71476398. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71476398. Exact location of event, depth 42.05 km, -65.746° West, 18.7155° North.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Barranquitas, Morovis, Cayey (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).

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

Did you feel the quake?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 33 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.43 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.746° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7155° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42.05 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33 km NNE of Vieques, 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	2025-03-18 13:06:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-18 13:37:36	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	181	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5034	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	215	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	pr71476398	Id of event.
Event Code	71476398	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71476398,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag was detected near Vieques in Puerto Rico

Did you feel the quake?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information