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Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Culebra in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Id of earthquake: us6000pwlf. Event ids that are associated: us6000pwlf. The epicenter was at a depth of 54.611 km (34 miles). The temblor was picked up at 12:55:04 / 12:55 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/03/25 / 2025-03-03 12:55:04 / March 3, 2025 @ 12:55 pm. Exact location of event, depth 54.611 km, -65.3546° West, 18.7255° North.

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Lorenzo, Cataño, Tortola (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 47 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.3546° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7255° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54.611 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47 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 12:55:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-03 13:05:27	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	234	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.53	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	168	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000pwlf	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pwlf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pwlf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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