A minor earthquake magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 87 kilometers (54 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. All ids that are associated to the event: pr71497213. Unique identifier: pr71497213. The temblor was detected at 23:07:35 / 11:07 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.07 km (12 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/10/25 / 2025-10-06 23:07:35 / October 6, 2025 @ 11:07 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -64.703° West, 19.113° North, depth 20.07 km.

Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 87 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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