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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.263S, -64.9917WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The temblor was picked up at 21:56:38 / 9:56 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 126 km (78 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -64.9917 West, latitude 18.263 North, depth = 126 km. Event id: pr15217007. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15217007. Global time and date of event 05/08/15 / 2015-08-05 01:56:38 / August 5, 2015 @ 1:56 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naguabo, Luquillo, Fajardo (min 5000 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).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. 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: 10 km SW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.9917° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.263° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 126 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 10km SW of Charlotte Amalie, 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 2015-08-05 01:56:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-05 05:16:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 148 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 0.27937605 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 331.2 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 pr15217007 Id of event.
Event Code 15217007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15217007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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