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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Stella in Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on August 28, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1429S, -67.731WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Stella in Puerto Rico. Exact location of earthquake, -67.731° West, 18.1429° North, depth 80.033 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 80.033 km (50 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/08/25 / 2025-08-28 16:06:18 / August 28, 2025 @ 4:06 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qrkb. Id of event: us7000qrkb. The temblor was reported at 16:06:18 / 4:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabela, Sabana Grande, San Sebastián (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from San Germán (c. 12 100 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Sebastián (c. 11 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 54 km WSW of Stella, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -67.731° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1429° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.033 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54 km WSW of Stella, 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 2025-08-28 16:06:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-28 17:02:28 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 199 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, 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 0.562 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 316 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000qrkb Id of event.
Event Code 7000qrkb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qrkb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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