Minor earthquake, 3.45 mag was detected near Hatillo in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) was reported 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Hatillo in Puerto Rico on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.8466 West, latitude 19.0688 North, depth = 42 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 42 km (26 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2025304000. Event ids that are associated: us6000rklc, pr2025304000. Global time and date of event 31/10/25 / 2025-10-31 16:52:39 / October 31, 2025 @ 4:52 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 16:52:39 / 4:52 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Manatí (c. 16 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Aguadilla (c. 16 100 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Isabela (c. 12 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Estancias de Florida, San Sebastián, Manatí.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days four hundred and ten 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

Questions or comments?

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. 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: 64 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico.

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.45 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.8466° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0688° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64 km N of Hatillo, 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	2025-10-31 16:52:39	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-31 17:25:42	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	183	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	,us,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6569	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	236	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	pr2025304000	Id of event.
Event Code	2025304000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rklc,pr2025304000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake, 3.45 mag was detected near Hatillo in Puerto Rico

Questions or comments?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information