Minor earthquake, 3.35 mag has occurred near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.35 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.722833333333 West, latitude 19.1415 North, depth = 21.98 km. The temblor was detected at 09:20:13 / 9:20 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.98 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr71497503. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71497503. Global time and date of event 08/10/25 / 2025-10-08 09:20:13 / October 8, 2025 @ 9:20 am UTC/GMT.

Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 four, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 89 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.35 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.722833333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1415° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	21.98 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	89 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	2025-10-08 09:20:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-08 10:09:50	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	173	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	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7154	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	276	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	pr71497503	Id of event.
Event Code	71497503	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71497503,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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