Minor earthquake: M2.87 quake has struck near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.01 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 16/06/25 / 2025-06-16 14:54:41 / June 16, 2025 @ 2:54 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -65.006166666667° West, 18.967666666667° North, depth 37.01 km. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:54:41 / 2:54 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr71485963. Unique identifier: pr71485963.

Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 69 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.006166666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.967666666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69 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	2025-06-16 14:54:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-06-16 15:37:22	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	127	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6138	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	254	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	pr71485963	Id of event.
Event Code	71485963	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71485963,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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