Minor earthquake: M3.24 quake has struck near Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) was reported 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Tierras Nuevas Poniente in Puerto Rico on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/07/25 / 2025-07-18 08:28:50 / July 18, 2025 @ 8:28 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.42 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr71489578. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71489578. The temblor was detected at 08:28:50 / 8:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 15.42 km, -66.484333333333° West, 19.050833333333° North.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Levittown (c. 29 800 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Bayamón, Quebradillas, Ciales (min 5000 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 ten, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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: 65 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.484333333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.050833333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	65 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, 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	2025-07-18 08:28:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-18 09:05:34	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	162	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5723	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	280	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	pr71489578	Id of event.
Event Code	71489578	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71489578,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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