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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.223 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/10/25 / 2025-10-16 18:05:03 / October 16, 2025 @ 6:05 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 18:05:03 / 6:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 28.223 km, -65.0808° West, 18.6791° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rhm1. Id of event: us6000rhm1.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Luquillo, Fajardo (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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-three, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 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: 40 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.0808° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6791° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.223 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	40 km NNW 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	2025-10-16 18:05:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-16 18:10:59	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	158	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.507	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	216	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	us6000rhm1	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rhm1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rhm1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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