Minor earthquake: M3.31 quake has struck near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.31 (ml/mb) was reported 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico on Sunday. The 3.31-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:40:00 / 11:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -67.1753° West, latitude 17.9915° North, depth = 6 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/06/25 / 2025-06-08 11:40:00 / June 8, 2025 @ 11:40 am. Event id: pr2025159002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2025159002. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Event epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Adjuntas (c. 19 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Santa Isabel, Florida, Estancias de Florida (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 2 km NNE of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.31 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.1753° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9915° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2 km NNE of Pole Ojea, 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	2025-06-08 11:40:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-08 12:11:49	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	169	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0674	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	268	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	pr2025159002	Id of event.
Event Code	2025159002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2025159002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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