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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on January 26, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9365S, -64.6933WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 08:57:47 / 8:57 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/01/25 / 2025-01-26 08:57:47 / January 26, 2025 @ 8:57 am. Id of earthquake: us6000pmep. Event ids that are associated: us6000pmep. Exact location of event, longitude -64.6933 West, latitude 18.9365 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town. Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 three, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.6933° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9365° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67 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 2025-01-26 08:57:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-26 09:20:19 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 168 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.632 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 217 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000pmep Id of event.
Event Code 6000pmep An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pmep, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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