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Light earthquake 4.05 mag, 143 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.6356S, -65.347WA light earthquake magnitude 4.05 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 143 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (89 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/03/25 / 2025-03-20 22:45:34 / March 20, 2025 @ 10:45 pm. The temblor was picked up at 22:45:34 / 10:45 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 64 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr2025079006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2025079006. Exact location, longitude -65.347° West, latitude 19.6356° North, depth = 64 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 143 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.05 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.347° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6356° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 143 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 2025-03-20 22:45:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-21 00:13:31 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 252 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 1.3296 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 264 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 pr2025079006 Id of event.
Event Code 2025079006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2025079006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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