Minor earthquake, 3.44 mag was detected near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.87 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 44.87 km, -64.666833333333° West, 19.096° North. Unique identifier: pr71497803. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71497803. Global time and date of event 12/10/25 / 2025-10-12 10:50:50 / October 12, 2025 @ 10:50 am UTC/GMT. The 3.44-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:50:50 / 10:50 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 73 km (46 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola. Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.44 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.666833333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.096° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	44.87 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	85 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	2025-10-12 10:50:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-12 11:29:32	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	182	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6526	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.26 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	265	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	pr71497803	Id of event.
Event Code	71497803	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71497803,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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