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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on October 7, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1864S, -64.7717WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/10/25 / 2025-10-07 01:38:23 / October 7, 2025 @ 1:38 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 01:38:23 / 1:38 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.056 km (8 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -64.7717° West, 19.1864° North, depth 13.056 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rf83. Unique identifier: us6000rf83.

Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola. Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 94 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.7717° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1864° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.056 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94 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 2025-10-07 01:38:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-07 01:47:03 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 259 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.775 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 131 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rf83 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rf83 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rf83, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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