A minor earthquake magnitude 3.51 (ml/mb) strikes 9 kilometers (6 miles) from San Juan in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -66.1428 West, latitude 18.5443 North, depth = 96 km. The temblor was reported at 22:09:42 / 10:09 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 03/07/25 / 2025-07-03 22:09:42 / July 3, 2025 @ 10:09 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 96 km (60 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2025184002. Unique identifier: pr2025184002.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 10 km (6 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Bayamón (c. 203 500 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lares, Peñuelas, Ponce.

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 one, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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