Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Rincón in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Rincón in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 30/04/25 / 2025-04-30 00:07:43 / April 30, 2025 @ 12:07 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2025120000. Event ids that are associated: pr2025120000. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:07:43 / 12:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -67.6943° West, 18.8431° North, depth 24 km.

Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Punta Cana (c. 100 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Añasco (c. 6 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Moca (c. 5 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Aguada (c. 4 000 pop). Nearby 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 Añasco, Punta Cana, Isabela.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 72 km NW of Rincón, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.6943° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8431° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	72 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	2025-04-30 00:07:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-30 01:14:34	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	222	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6936	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	174	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	pr2025120000	Id of event.
Event Code	2025120000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2025120000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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