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Minor earthquake: M3.98 quake has struck near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on March 2, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.904S, -65.1541WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.98 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The temblor was picked up at 00:36:19 / 12:36 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/03/25 / 2025-03-02 00:36:19 / March 2, 2025 @ 12:36 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 44 km (27 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 44 km, -65.1541° West, 18.904° North. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pwct, pr2025061000. Unique identifier: pr2025061000.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabel Segunda, Ceiba, Luquillo.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 66 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.98 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.1541° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.904° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, 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 2025-03-02 00:36:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-02 01:26:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 244 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5831 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 263 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 pr2025061000 Id of event.
Event Code 2025061000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pwct,pr2025061000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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