Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Global time and date of event 12/06/25 / 2025-06-12 09:25:59 / June 12, 2025 @ 9:25 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 09:25:59 / 9:25 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -65.0022° West, 18.9801° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Event id: us6000qjsd. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qjsd.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (46 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 71 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.0022° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9801° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	71 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	2025-06-12 09:25:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-12 09:34:21	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	158	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	0.626	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	230	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	us6000qjsd	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qjsd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qjsd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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