Minor earthquake: M3.15 quake has struck near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr71477733. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71477733. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.67 km (36 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/03/25 / 2025-03-28 05:56:23 / March 28, 2025 @ 5:56 am. The 3.15-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:56:23 / 5:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 57.67 km, -67.896° West, 17.986833333333° North.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cabo Rojo, Rincón, Puerto Real. Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Puerto Real (c. 6 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 75 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.896° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.986833333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	57.67 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	75 km W of Pole Ojea, 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	2025-03-28 05:56:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-28 06:15:40	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	153	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6984	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	209	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	pr71477733	Id of event.
Event Code	71477733	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71477733,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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