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Minor earthquake, 3.84 mag was detected near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on January 26, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1593S, -64.4776WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.84 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, depth 18 km, -64.4776° West, 19.1593° North. The temblor was picked up at 09:28:14 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/01/25 / 2025-01-26 09:28:14 / January 26, 2025 @ 9:28 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pmes, pr2025026003. Unique identifier: pr2025026003. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18 km (11 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola. Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-nine 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 97 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.4776° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1593° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97 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 2025-01-26 09:28:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-26 10:31:32 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 227 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9383 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 236 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 pr2025026003 Id of event.
Event Code 2025026003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pmes,pr2025026003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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