A minor earthquake magnitude 3.63 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Isabela in Puerto Rico. The temblor was picked up at 08:39:00 / 8:39 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2025141000. Unique identifier: pr2025141000. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/05/25 / 2025-05-21 08:39:00 / May 21, 2025 @ 8:39 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16 km (10 miles). Exact location, longitude -67.1051° West, latitude 19.2213° North, depth = 16 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Quebradillas, Isabela. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Quebradillas (c. 5 600 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days sixty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 80 km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico.
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