Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 113 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 113 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands (70 miles). The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:04:06 / 9:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/01/25 / 2025-01-31 09:04:06 / January 31, 2025 @ 9:04 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.4636 West, latitude 19.3115 North, depth = 28 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 28 km (17 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2025031001. Id of event: pr2025031001.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 113 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.4636° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3115° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	113 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	2025-01-31 09:04:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-31 09:33:14	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	222	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	,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.0783	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	319	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	pr2025031001	Id of event.
Event Code	2025031001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2025031001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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