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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 61 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on November 24, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.883S, -64.74WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000rq07. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rq07. Exact time and date of earthquake 23/11/25 / 2025-11-23 23:44:39 / November 23, 2025 @ 11:44 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55.31 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 23:44:39 / 11:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 55.31 km, -64.74° West, 18.883° North.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). 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). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 61 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.74° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.883° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61 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 2025-11-23 23:44:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-24 00:03:29 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 312 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.474 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rq07 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rq07 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rq07, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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