Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.493166666667 West, latitude 18.7095 North, depth = 63.71 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/04/25 / 2025-04-30 17:21:19 / April 30, 2025 @ 5:21 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 63.71 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71480953. Id of event: pr71480953. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:21:19 / 5:21 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town. Event epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 52 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.493166666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7095° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	63.71 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	52 km NE 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	2025-04-30 17:21:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-30 17:37:12	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	148	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.312	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.03 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	316	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	pr71480953	Id of event.
Event Code	71480953	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71480953,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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