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Minor earthquake, 3.56 mag was detected near Culebra in Puerto Rico

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.56 (ml/mb) strikes 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Wednesday. The 3.56-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:39:16 / 3:39 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pz3t, pr2025134000. Id of event: pr2025134000. Exact location of earthquake, -65.4106° West, 18.6173° North, depth 64 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/05/25 / 2025-05-14 03:39:16 / May 14, 2025 @ 3:39 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 64 km (40 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 80 km (49 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). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Maunabo, Sabana Seca, Levittown (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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: 36 km NNW of Culebra, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.56 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.4106° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6173° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	64 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36 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 03:39:16	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-14 05:40:45	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	195	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5203	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	199	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	pr2025134000	Id of event.
Event Code	2025134000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pz3t,pr2025134000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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