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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Global time and date of event 22/04/25 / 2025-04-22 05:52:00 / April 22, 2025 @ 5:52 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000pu4y. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pu4y. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.7556 West, latitude 18.7884 North, depth = 57.45 km. The temblor was detected at 05:52:00 / 5:52 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 57.45 km (36 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.7556° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7884° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	57.45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	50 km N 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	2025-04-22 05:52:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-22 06:06:37	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	188	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	22	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.388	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	193	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	us7000pu4y	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pu4y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pu4y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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