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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/01/25 / 2025-01-11 19:11:30 / January 11, 2025 @ 7:11 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -65.021166666667° West, 18.994° North, depth 55.86 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 55.86 km (35 miles). Unique identifier: pr71470638. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71470638. The temblor was detected at 19:11:30 / 7:11 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 72 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.021166666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.994° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55.86 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	72 km N of Charlotte Amalie, 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	2025-01-11 19:11:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-11 19:36:49	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	178	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6411	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.35 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	257	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	pr71470638	Id of event.
Event Code	71470638	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71470638,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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