A minor earthquake magnitude 3.52 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2025229001. Unique identifier: pr2025229001. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.3213 West, latitude 18.9015 North, depth = 51 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:39:33 / 10:39 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/08/25 / 2025-08-17 22:39:33 / August 17, 2025 @ 10:39 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 51 km (32 miles).
Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from San Isidro (c. 8 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Ceiba (c. 6 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was San Isidro, Río Grande, Ceiba (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 66 km N of Culebra, Puerto Rico.
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