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Minor earthquake: M3.96 quake has struck near Arecibo in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 19.059S, -66.6236WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.96 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Arecibo in Puerto Rico on Monday. Id of earthquake: pr2025181002. Event ids that are associated: us7000q9p2, pr2025181002. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/06/25 / 2025-06-30 05:56:19 / June 30, 2025 @ 5:56 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 05:56:19 / 5:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -66.6236° West, 19.059° North, depth 40 km.

Nearby 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 Aguadilla, San Sebastián, Lares. The epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Cataño (c. 28 100 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 65 km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.6236° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.059° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65 km N of Arecibo, 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 2025-06-30 05:56:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-30 06:51:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 242 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 0.5895 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 203 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 pr2025181002 Id of event.
Event Code 2025181002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000q9p2,pr2025181002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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