A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/09/25 / 2025-09-10 01:28:29 / September 10, 2025 @ 1:28 am. Unique identifier: us7000qv5s. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qv5s. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -64.4638° West, 19.1023° North. The temblor was detected at 01:28:29 / 1:28 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 92 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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