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Minor earthquake, 3.42 mag was detected near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.192333333333S, -64.6195WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 97 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands (60 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 25/10/24 / 2024-10-25 22:12:25 / October 25, 2024 @ 10:12 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr71463553. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71463553. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.6195 West, latitude 19.192333333333 North, depth = 27.2 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27.2 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 22:12:25 / 10:12 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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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. 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: 97 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.42 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.6195° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.192333333333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97 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 2024-10-25 22:12:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-25 22:28:07 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 180 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7681 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 292 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 pr71463553 Id of event.
Event Code 71463553 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71463553, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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