Minor earthquake, 3.78 mag was detected near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.78 (ml/mb) strikes 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: pr2024254001. Event ids that are associated: pr2024254001. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 10:07:11 / 10:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -64.3101 West, latitude 19.0051 North, depth = 49 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/09/24 / 2024-09-10 10:07:11 / September 10, 2024 @ 10:07 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (44 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 90 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.78 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.3101° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0051° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	90 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-09-10 10:07:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-10 10:37:58	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	220	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6659	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	313	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	pr2024254001	Id of event.
Event Code	2024254001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2024254001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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