Minor earthquake: M3.43 quake has struck near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/10/24 / 2024-10-28 02:56:38 / October 28, 2024 @ 2:56 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 54.5 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr71463923. Event ids that are associated: pr71463923. The temblor was detected at 02:56:38 / 2:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.5665 West, latitude 19.088666666667 North, depth = 54.5 km.

Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola. The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 87 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.43 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.5665° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.088666666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	54.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	87 km NNE 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	2024-10-28 02:56:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-28 03:19:21	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	181	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	0.6669	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	294	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	pr71463923	Id of event.
Event Code	71463923	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71463923,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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