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Minor earthquake, 3.38 mag has occurred near San Juan in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.222833333333S, -65.981833333333WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) strikes 84 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico (52 miles) on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 07:28:40 / 7:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -65.981833333333° West, latitude 19.222833333333° North, depth = 16.8 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/04/25 / 2025-04-18 07:28:40 / April 18, 2025 @ 7:28 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.8 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr71479383. Event ids that are associated: pr71479383.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 84 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.38 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.981833333333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.222833333333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84 km N of San Juan, 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 2025-04-18 07:28:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-18 07:49:24 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 176 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9051 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 245 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 pr71479383 Id of event.
Event Code 71479383 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71479383, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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