Minor earthquake, 3.24 mag has occurred near Rincón in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Rincón in Puerto Rico. The epicenter was at a depth of 5.22 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/04/25 / 2025-04-27 00:39:16 / April 27, 2025 @ 12:39 am. Exact location of earthquake, -67.700833333333° West, 18.699666666667° North, depth 5.22 km. Id of earthquake: pr71480468. Event ids that are associated: pr71480468. The temblor was detected at 00:39:16 / 12:39 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Dominican Republic (c. 9 824 000 pop), Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Cana, Añasco, Isabela. Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 62 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.700833333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.699666666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	62 km NW of Rincón, 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	2025-04-27 00:39:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-27 05:27:24	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	162	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	14	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6051	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 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	pr71480468	Id of event.
Event Code	71480468	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71480468,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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