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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.2887S, -64.8724WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The temblor was picked up at 20:40:34 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/11/15 / 2015-11-17 00:40:34 / November 17, 2015 @ 12:40 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15321001. Unique identifier: pr15321001. The epicenter was at a depth of 102 km (63 miles). Exact location, longitude -64.8724° West, latitude 18.2887° North, depth = 102 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saint Croix, Isabel Segunda, Culebra.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-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: 8 km SE of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8724° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2887° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 102 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km SE 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 2015-11-17 00:40:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-17 05:07:26 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 129 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.09881468 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 302.4 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 pr15321001 Id of event.
Event Code 15321001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15321001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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