Minor earthquake, 3.32 mag has occurred near Brenas in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Brenas in Puerto Rico. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.11 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71480888. Id of event: pr71480888. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/04/25 / 2025-04-30 02:13:59 / April 30, 2025 @ 2:13 am. Exact location of event, depth 30.11 km, -66.276166666667° West, 19.167° North. The temblor was picked up at 02:13:59 / 2:13 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Vega Baja, Ingenio, Ceiba. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Dorado (c. 13 100 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Ceiba (c. 6 600 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 77 km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.32 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.276166666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.167° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	30.11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	77 km N of Brenas, 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	2025-04-30 02:13:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-30 02:30:44	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	170	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.727	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	277	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	pr71480888	Id of event.
Event Code	71480888	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71480888,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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