Minor earthquake, 3.53 mag has occurred near San Juan in Puerto Rico

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.53 (ml/mb) was reported 125 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico (78 miles) on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/12/25 / 2025-12-24 00:08:49 / December 24, 2025 @ 12:08 am. Exact location of event, longitude -66.0323 West, latitude 19.5956 North, depth = 40 km. The temblor was reported at 00:08:49 / 12:08 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40 km (25 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2025358000. Unique identifier: pr2025358000.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-five 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 125 km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.53 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-66.0323° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5956° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	40 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	125 km N of San Juan, 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	2025-12-24 00:08:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-24 00:35:20	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	192	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.2875	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.35 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	265	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	pr2025358000	Id of event.
Event Code	2025358000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2025358000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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