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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 130 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

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Earthquake location 19.4711S, -64.478WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 130 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands (81 miles). Global time and date of event 06/09/25 / 2025-09-06 08:37:36 / September 6, 2025 @ 8:37 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:37:36 / 8:37 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -64.478° West, latitude 19.4711° North, depth = 35 km. Event id: us7000qud8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qud8.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days fourty-five, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 130 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.478° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4711° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 130 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 2025-09-06 08:37:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-02 06:03:08 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 148 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.054 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 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 us7000qud8 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qud8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qud8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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