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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Culebra in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on May 14, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.6221S, -65.4119WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. Exact location of event, depth 67.435 km, -65.4119° West, 18.6221° North. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:39:15 / 3:39 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/05/25 / 2025-05-14 03:39:15 / May 14, 2025 @ 3:39 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 67.435 km (42 miles). Unique identifier: us7000pz3t. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pz3t.

Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Caguas, Guaynabo, Cataño. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km NNW of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.4119° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6221° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 67.435 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 km NNW 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 2025-05-14 03:39:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-14 03:54:49 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 148 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.509 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 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 us7000pz3t Id of event.
Event Code 7000pz3t An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pz3t, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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