Minor earthquake, 3.71 mag was detected near Tallaboa in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.71 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Tallaboa in Puerto Rico. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 8 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -66.749 West, latitude 17.9613 North, depth = 8 km. Global time and date of event 03/06/25 / 2025-06-03 22:24:54 / June 3, 2025 @ 10:24 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qhsu, pr2025154000. Id of event: pr2025154000. The temblor was picked up at 22:24:54 / 10:24 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 15 km (10 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cataño, Levittown, Guaynabo.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three 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.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.71 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.749° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9613° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km SW of Tallaboa, 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	2025-06-03 22:24:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-03 22:52:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	12	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.6	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.517	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	217	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1309	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	163	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	pr2025154000	Id of event.
Event Code	2025154000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qhsu,pr2025154000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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