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Minor earthquake, 3.06 mag strikes near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on May 7, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1515S, -64.858666666667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 89 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (55 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -64.858666666667 West, latitude 19.1515 North, depth = 32.95 km. The temblor was reported at 13:05:15 / 1:05 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.95 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr71481593. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71481593. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/05/25 / 2025-05-07 13:05:15 / May 7, 2025 @ 1:05 pm UTC/GMT.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 89 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.858666666667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1515° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89 km N 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 2025-05-07 13:05:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-07 13:21:48 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 144 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 0.7617 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 281 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 pr71481593 Id of event.
Event Code 71481593 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71481593, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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