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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on January 26, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.3566S, -64.7584WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, longitude -64.7584 West, latitude 18.3566 North, depth = 35 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:28:20 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pmes. Id of event: us6000pmes. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/25 / 2025-01-26 09:28:20 / January 26, 2025 @ 9:28 am.

Nearby 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). Event epicenter was 70 km (43 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Fajardo, Isabel Segunda (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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: 4 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.7584° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3566° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 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 2025-01-26 09:28:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-26 09:58:12 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 298 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.188 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000pmes Id of event.
Event Code 6000pmes An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pmes, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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