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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on May 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.705S, -64.3101WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Event id: us7000pzug. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pzug. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.376 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -64.3101° West, 18.705° North, depth 47.376 km. The temblor was detected at 12:19:32 / 12:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/05/25 / 2025-05-17 12:19:32 / May 17, 2025 @ 12:19 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 66 km (41 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 fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.3101° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.705° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.376 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65 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 2025-05-17 12:19:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-18 05:19:16 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 138 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 0.408 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 320 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 us7000pzug Id of event.
Event Code 7000pzug An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pzug, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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