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Minor earthquake: M3.21 quake has struck near Esperanza in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Esperanza in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr71479108. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71479108. The temblor was detected at 17:00:23 / 5:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 20.18 km, -65.228° West, 17.916833333333° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 20.18 km (13 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/04/25 / 2025-04-13 17:00:23 / April 13, 2025 @ 5:00 pm.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Las Piedras, Luquillo, Maunabo. Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Humacao (c. 20 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 32 km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.21 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.228° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.916833333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.18 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32 km SE of Esperanza, 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	2025-04-13 17:00:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-13 18:03:27	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	159	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3573	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	261	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	pr71479108	Id of event.
Event Code	71479108	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71479108,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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