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Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on January 26, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0925S, -64.606WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was reported 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40.136 km (25 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/01/25 / 2025-01-26 10:49:09 / January 26, 2025 @ 10:49 am. The temblor was picked up at 10:49:09 / 10:49 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pmf0. Unique identifier: us6000pmf0. Exact location of event, longitude -64.606 West, latitude 19.0925 North, depth = 40.136 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 86 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.606° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0925° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.136 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86 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 10:49:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-26 11:02:26 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 234 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.808 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 178 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 us6000pmf0 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pmf0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pmf0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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