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Minor earthquake 3.9 mag, 67 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

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Earthquake location 18.782S, -64.3645WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/05/25 / 2025-05-29 06:36:27 / May 29, 2025 @ 6:36 am. The temblor was picked up at 06:36:27 / 6:36 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 29 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000qglb, pr2025149002. Unique identifier: pr2025149002. Exact location, longitude -64.3645° West, latitude 18.782° North, depth = 29 km.

Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town.

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 five, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.3645° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.782° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67 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 2025-05-29 06:36:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-29 07:04:07 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 234 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4464 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 233 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 pr2025149002 Id of event.
Event Code 2025149002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qglb,pr2025149002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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