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Minor earthquake, 3.11 mag strikes near Indios in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on April 26, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.985833333333S, -66.808166666667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Indios in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/04/25 / 2025-04-26 01:20:00 / April 26, 2025 @ 1:20 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15.08 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 01:20:00 / 1:20 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr71480113. Event ids that are associated: us7000pv5m, pr71480113. Exact location, longitude -66.808166666667° West, latitude 17.985833333333° North, depth = 15.08 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Aguas Buenas, Ingenio, Arroyo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 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 four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 1 km SE of Indios, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.11 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.808166666667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.985833333333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.08 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1 km SE of Indios, 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 2025-04-26 01:20:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-26 02:15:41 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 149 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03749 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 166 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 pr71480113 Id of event.
Event Code 71480113 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pv5m,pr71480113, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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