Minor earthquake, 3.57 mag has occurred near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.57 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, depth 36 km, -64.4245° West, 18.8068° North. The temblor was reported at 12:05:44 / 12:05 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 36 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2025019000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2025019000. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/01/25 / 2025-01-19 12:05:44 / January 19, 2025 @ 12:05 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 45 km (28 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 65 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.57 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.4245° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8068° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	65 km NE 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	2025-01-19 12:05:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-19 13:02:28	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4372	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.59 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	303	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	pr2025019000	Id of event.
Event Code	2025019000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2025019000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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