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Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag has occurred near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.460833333333S, -64.5945WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) was reported 126 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands (78 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.05 km (22 miles). The 3.43-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:59:30 / 9:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -64.5945° West, 19.460833333333° North, depth 35.05 km. Id of earthquake: pr71479828. Event ids that are associated: pr71479828. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/04/25 / 2025-04-23 09:59:30 / April 23, 2025 @ 9:59 am.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 126 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.43 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5945° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.460833333333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.05 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 126 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 2025-04-23 09:59:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-23 10:34:24 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 181 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.035 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 300 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 pr71479828 Id of event.
Event Code 71479828 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71479828, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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