Minor earthquake, 3.06 mag was detected near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) was reported 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -64.270166666667 West, latitude 18.2225 North, depth = 8.67 km. The temblor was detected at 02:29:34 / 2:29 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/10/25 / 2025-10-23 02:29:34 / October 23, 2025 @ 2:29 am. Event id: pr71498588. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71498588. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.67 km (5 miles).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saint Croix, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 56 km ESE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.06 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.270166666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.2225° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.67 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56 km ESE 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	2025-10-23 02:29:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-23 02:56:49	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	144	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2944	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.48 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	289	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	pr71498588	Id of event.
Event Code	71498588	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71498588,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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