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Minor earthquake, 3.53 mag strikes near Vieques in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.6506S, -65.4458WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.53 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 141 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico (88 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 50 km (31 miles). The temblor was detected at 22:01:37 / 10:01 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/06/25 / 2025-06-18 22:01:37 / June 18, 2025 @ 10:01 pm. Id of earthquake: pr2025169001. Event ids that are associated: us6000ql45, pr2025169001. Exact location of earthquake, -65.4458° West, 19.6506° North, depth 50 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. 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: 141 km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.53 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.4458° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6506° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 50 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 141 km NNE of Vieques, 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 2025-06-18 22:01:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-18 22:38:10 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 192 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.3845 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 249 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 pr2025169001 Id of event.
Event Code 2025169001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ql45,pr2025169001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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