Minor earthquake: M2.94 quake has struck near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) strikes 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.42 km (5 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71494143. Id of event: pr71494143. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:32:08 / 11:32 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/08/25 / 2025-08-31 23:32:08 / August 31, 2025 @ 11:32 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.784166666667 West, latitude 18.795666666667 North, depth = 8.42 km.

The epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 51 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.94 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.784166666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.795666666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51 km N 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	2025-08-31 23:32:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-01 00:54:08	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	133	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	0.4045	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.09 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	269	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	pr71494143	Id of event.
Event Code	71494143	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71494143,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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