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Minor earthquake 3.13 mag, 2 km NW of Hato Candal, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.392166666667S, -65.803666666667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Hato Candal in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -65.803666666667° West, 18.392166666667° North, depth 112.91 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 112.91 km (70 miles). Global time and date of event 06/04/25 / 2025-04-06 03:58:54 / April 6, 2025 @ 3:58 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr71478458. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71478458. The temblor was detected at 03:58:54 / 3:58 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Florida, Santa Isabel, Villalba. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 33 km (20 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 2 km NW of Hato Candal, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.13 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.803666666667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.392166666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112.91 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km NW of Hato Candal, 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 2025-04-06 03:58:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-06 04:20:22 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 151 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 0.2524 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 180 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 pr71478458 Id of event.
Event Code 71478458 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71478458, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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