Minor earthquake: M3.24 quake has struck near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) was reported 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands on Friday. The temblor was picked up at 06:16:29 / 6:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -64.607166666667 West, latitude 19.108333333333 North, depth = 18.9 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/12/25 / 2025-12-12 06:16:29 / December 12, 2025 @ 6:16 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr71502073. Event ids that are associated: pr71502073. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.9 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola. Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 88 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.24 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.607166666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.108333333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	18.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	88 km NNE 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	2025-12-12 06:16:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-12 06:45:07	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	162	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.6447	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.16 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	281	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	pr71502073	Id of event.
Event Code	71502073	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71502073,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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