Minor earthquake, 3.86 mag has occurred near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.86 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact location, longitude -64.473° West, latitude 19.0106° North, depth = 64 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:57:42 / 12:57 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2025253000. Event ids that are associated: pr2025253000. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/09/25 / 2025-09-10 00:57:42 / September 10, 2025 @ 12:57 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 64 km (40 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 82 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.473° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0106° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	64 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	82 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	2025-09-10 00:57:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-10 01:40:41	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	229	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5249	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	273	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	pr2025253000	Id of event.
Event Code	2025253000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2025253000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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