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

Posted by admin on October 6, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.228S, -64.9826WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 98 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (61 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/10/25 / 2025-10-06 19:46:14 / October 6, 2025 @ 7:46 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.9826 West, latitude 19.228 North, depth = 35 km. Id of earthquake: us6000rf5w. Event ids that are associated: us6000rf5w. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 19:46:14 / 7:46 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 98 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.9826° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.228° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98 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 2025-10-06 19:46:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-06 20:10:00 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 138 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.874 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 232 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 us6000rf5w Id of event.
Event Code 6000rf5w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rf5w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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