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Minor earthquake: M3.57 quake has struck near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.57 (ml/mb) strikes 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 66 km, -64.857° West, 18.2558° North. Global time and date of event 03/10/24 / 2024-10-03 08:17:22 / October 3, 2024 @ 8:17 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2024277001. Unique identifier: pr2024277001. The 3.57-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:17:22 / 8:17 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fajardo, Ceiba, Isabel Segunda (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km SW of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.57 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.857° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.2558° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	66 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km SW 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	2024-10-03 08:17:22	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-03 08:44:54	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	196	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1387	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.06 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	204	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	pr2024277001	Id of event.
Event Code	2024277001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2024277001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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