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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Isabela in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 5, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9351S, -66.9594WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico on Monday. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:58:37 / 2:58 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -66.9594° West, latitude 18.9351° North, depth = 44.858 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/05/25 / 2025-05-05 14:58:37 / May 5, 2025 @ 2:58 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.858 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us7000px99. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000px99.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Utuado, Florida, Las Marías (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days sixty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventeen 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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: 48 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.9594° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9351° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44.858 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48 km N of Isabela, 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 2025-05-05 14:58:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-05 15:12:27 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 158 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, 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 0.487 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000px99 Id of event.
Event Code 7000px99 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000px99, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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