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Minor earthquake 3.88 mag, 52 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.7718S, -65.3448WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.88 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, longitude -65.3448 West, latitude 18.7718 North, depth = 43 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pwlf, pr2025062001. Unique identifier: pr2025062001. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 12:55:05 / 12:55 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/03/25 / 2025-03-03 12:55:05 / March 3, 2025 @ 12:55 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gurabo, San Juan, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Humacao (c. 20 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 52 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3448° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7718° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52 km N of Culebra, 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 2025-03-03 12:55:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-03 13:42:07 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 232 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4684 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 237 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 pr2025062001 Id of event.
Event Code 2025062001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pwlf,pr2025062001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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