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


Earthquake location 18.9706S, -65.0121WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr16026002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16026002. Exact location of earthquake, -65.0121° West, 18.9706° North, depth 49 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/01/16 / 2016-01-26 19:02:31 / January 26, 2016 @ 7:02 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 15:02:31 / 3:02 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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). Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days one hundred and eight and in the last 365 days six hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 70 km N 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 -65.0121° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9706° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km N 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 2016-01-26 19:02:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-26 19:40:29 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 0.61804092 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 252 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 pr16026002 Id of event.
Event Code 16026002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16026002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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