Minor earthquake: M3.16 quake has struck near Rincón in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Rincón in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.94 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 06:47:41 / 6:47 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/08/25 / 2025-08-09 06:47:41 / August 9, 2025 @ 6:47 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71492243. Id of event: pr71492243. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -67.488833333333 West, latitude 18.396833333333 North, depth = 6.94 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yauco, Guánica, Hatillo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 26 km WNW of Rincón, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.16 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.488833333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.396833333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.94 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km WNW of Rincón, 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	2025-08-09 06:47:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-09 07:00:40	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	154	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2344	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	154	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	pr71492243	Id of event.
Event Code	71492243	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71492243,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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