A minor earthquake magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) strikes 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/05/25 / 2025-05-04 13:16:49 / May 4, 2025 @ 1:16 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.4975 West, latitude 18.683 North, depth = 10.03 km. The temblor was detected at 13:16:49 / 1:16 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr71481353. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71481353. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.03 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Salinas, Yauco, Añasco.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 24 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico.
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