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Minor earthquake 3.29 mag, 46 km ESE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/01/25 / 2025-01-29 12:17:15 / January 29, 2025 @ 12:17 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.3785 West, latitude 18.202666666667 North, depth = 13.46 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.46 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000p9u7, pr71471758. Unique identifier: pr71471758. The temblor was detected at 12:17:15 / 12:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saint Croix, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay. Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.29 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.3785° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.202666666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46 km ESE 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	2025-01-29 12:17:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-29 16:14:57	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	167	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.569	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	339	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	pr71471758	Id of event.
Event Code	71471758	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000p9u7,pr71471758,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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