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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Dorado in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.706166666667S, -66.2045WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Dorado in Puerto Rico. Unique identifier: pr71482818. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71482818. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/05/25 / 2025-05-18 21:33:49 / May 18, 2025 @ 9:33 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.76 km (25 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -66.2045 West, latitude 18.706166666667 North, depth = 40.76 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:33:49 / 9:33 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Patillas, Juana Díaz, Coco. The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every 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. 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: 28 km NNE of Dorado, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.2045° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.706166666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km NNE of Dorado, 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 2025-05-18 21:33:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-18 21:53:57 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 pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3833 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 289 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 pr71482818 Id of event.
Event Code 71482818 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71482818, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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