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Minor earthquake, 3.48 mag has occurred near Culebra in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.8713S, -65.2286WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.48 (ml/mb) strikes 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Sunday. The 3.48-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:24:12 / 5:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -65.2286° West, latitude 18.8713° North, depth = 44 km. Id of earthquake: pr2025124002. Event ids that are associated: us7000px49, pr2025124002. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/05/25 / 2025-05-04 17:24:12 / May 4, 2025 @ 5:24 pm.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabel Segunda, Tortola, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

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

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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 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: 63 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.48 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2286° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8713° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63 km N of Culebra, 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 2025-05-04 17:24:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-04 17:59:44 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 186 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5824 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 229 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 pr2025124002 Id of event.
Event Code 2025124002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000px49,pr2025124002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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