A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 83 kilometers (52 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico on Saturday. Global time and date of event 26/04/25 / 2025-04-26 13:07:24 / April 26, 2025 @ 1:07 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21 km (13 miles). Exact location, longitude -66.013° West, latitude 19.2148° North, depth = 21 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pv89, pr2025116002. Id of event: pr2025116002. The temblor was reported at 13:07:24 / 1:07 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Dorado, Loíza, Levittown. Event epicenter was 84 km (52 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Loíza (c. 4 300 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 83 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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