Minor earthquake: M2.86 quake has struck near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) strikes 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands on Friday. The temblor was detected at 00:55:26 / 12:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -64.577166666667° West, latitude 18.689° North, depth = 23.88 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.88 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/06/25 / 2025-06-06 00:55:26 / June 6, 2025 @ 12:55 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr71484818. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71484818.

Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 46 km (28 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 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.577166666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.689° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23.88 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	45 km NNE 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	2025-06-06 00:55:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-06 01:29:27	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	126	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2705	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	303	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	pr71484818	Id of event.
Event Code	71484818	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71484818,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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