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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near the Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.8383S, -64.3365WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported north of the Virgin Islands (0 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -64.3365 West, latitude 19.8383 North, depth = 62 km. The temblor was reported at 19:27:54 / 7:27 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/09/15 / 2015-09-24 19:27:54 / September 24, 2015 @ 7:27 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 62 km (39 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15267006. Id of event: pr15267006.

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 twelve, in the past 30 days sixty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourteen 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: north of the Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.3365° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.8383° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place north of the 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 2015-09-24 19:27:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-24 19:49:25 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 168 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.10133454 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 324 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 pr15267006 Id of event.
Event Code 15267006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15267006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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