According to the 2020 FEMA Fact Sheet (FEMA, 2020), Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands are located in a high risk region for earthquake damage. In the last year (05-jul-2019 to 05-jul 2020) the Puerto Rico Seismic Network (PRSN) recorded 136 earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 4.0 and two events had magnitudes greater than or equal to 6.0. The last update of the seismic hazard maps for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands was performed in 2003. According to Mueller et al. (2010), the Bunce fault, the Muertos Trough and related fault structures were not included in the hazard map. The Great Southern Puerto Rico fault, was considered largely quiescent, but Piety et al. (2008) through paleoseismic studies, evidenced activity in this one. Otherwise, offshore faults in southern Puerto Rico were not considered, because their rates of activity were poorly known and assumed to be most likely small. However, starting in December 2019 the Southwestern Puerto Rico (SWPR) Seismic Sequence has been active and continues to be active in these southern offshore faults. According to the StEER technical report (Miranda et al., 2020), the events that occurred between December 2019 and January 2020 caused damage to approximately 10,000 structures and more than 8,000 people were displaced. Based on these facts, and considering that previously unknown tectonic fault structures have been revealed by the SWPR Seismic Sequence (Lopez et al., 2020b), a reevaluation of the seismic threat to Puerto Rico is required. This should include the seismic activity that, according to the PRSN catalog, consists of more than 50,000 events since 2002 to date. This new seismic hazard evaluation will include multiple earthquakes with magnitudes greater than M 5 which were not part of the catalog in 2001. The purpose of this study is generating a new Ground Motion Prediction Equation (GMPE) that incorporates the current seismicity for the region, which unlike the local model used in Mueller et al. (2010) the data will be used directly to obtain the ground motion relationships (Motazedian et al., 2005). This new data now permits to obtain a GMPE from a regression analysis. In the first stage of the research, the aim is generating a preliminary GMPE based on crustal seismicity (events less than 25 km deep) which represents more than 60% of the total registered earthquakes in the PRSN catalog.