Minor earthquake: M3.41 quake has struck near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.41 (ml/mb) was reported 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -64.748333333333° West, 19.055333333333° North, depth 24.82 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/10/25 / 2025-10-08 06:53:59 / October 8, 2025 @ 6:53 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71497478. Id of event: pr71497478. The epicenter was at a depth of 24.82 km (15 miles). The 3.41-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:53:59 / 6:53 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 80 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.41 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.748333333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.055333333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24.82 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	80 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 06:53:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-08 07:35:44	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	179	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6433	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	257	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	pr71497478	Id of event.
Event Code	71497478	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71497478,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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