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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 2 km SSE of Cayey, Puerto Rico

Posted by admin on December 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.0902S, -66.1614WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Cayey in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 04:13:59 / 4:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 31.287 km, -66.1614° West, 18.0902° North. Event id: us6000rv7q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rv7q. The epicenter was at a depth of 31.287 km (19 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/12/25 / 2025-12-16 04:13:59 / December 16, 2025 @ 4:13 am.

Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guánica, Lares, Isabel Segunda (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 2 km SSE of Cayey, Puerto Rico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -66.1614° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0902° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.287 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 2 km SSE of Cayey, 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 2025-12-16 04:13:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-16 04:26:24 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 158 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.134 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 104 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 us6000rv7q Id of event.
Event Code 6000rv7q An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rv7q, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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