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Minor earthquake: M3.62 quake has struck near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.62 (ml/mb) was reported 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -65.0138 West, latitude 19.0313 North, depth = 25 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/06/25 / 2025-06-12 09:26:00 / June 12, 2025 @ 9:26 am. The 3.62-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:26:00 / 9:26 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qjsd, pr2025163002. Id of event: pr2025163002.

The epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum 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).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-five 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 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: 76 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	3.62 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.0138° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0313° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	76 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 09:26:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-12 09:46:36	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	202	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6799	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	280	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	pr2025163002	Id of event.
Event Code	2025163002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qjsd,pr2025163002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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