Minor earthquake: M3.25 quake has struck near Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Pole Ojea in Puerto Rico. Event id: pr71496058. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71496058. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/09/25 / 2025-09-20 04:59:19 / September 20, 2025 @ 4:59 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 45.52 km (28 miles). Exact location, longitude -67.878333333333° West, latitude 17.977833333333° North, depth = 45.52 km. The temblor was detected at 04:59:19 / 4:59 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mayagüez, Hormigueros, Cabo Rojo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 82 km (51 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Hormigueros (c. 11 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Cabo Rojo (c. 10 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Puerto Real (c. 6 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Rincón (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 73 km W of Pole Ojea, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.25 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.878333333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.977833333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45.52 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	73 km W of Pole Ojea, 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	2025-09-20 04:59:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-20 05:18:19	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	0.7163	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	210	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	pr71496058	Id of event.
Event Code	71496058	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71496058,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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