Minor earthquake, 3.88 mag strikes near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.88 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 156 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands (97 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/09/24 / 2024-09-14 19:05:17 / September 14, 2024 @ 7:05 pm. Unique identifier: pr2024258000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2024258000. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.5918 West, latitude 19.7298 North, depth = 35 km. The 3.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:05:17 / 7:05 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 156 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.88 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.5918° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.7298° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	156 km N 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	2024-09-14 19:05:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-14 20:17:55	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	232	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	1.315	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	277	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	pr2024258000	Id of event.
Event Code	2024258000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2024258000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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