Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Unique identifier: us6000pzhk. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pzhk. The temblor was reported at 02:40:25 / 2:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -64.4521° West, latitude 18.9546° North, depth = 33.928 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33.928 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/03/25 / 2025-03-18 02:40:25 / March 18, 2025 @ 2:40 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.4521° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9546° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33.928 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	77 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	2025-03-18 02:40:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-18 03:05:15	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	121	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	16	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.766	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.54 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	216	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000pzhk	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pzhk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pzhk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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