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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.3178S, -64.8014WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16075002. Id of event: pr16075002. The temblor was reported at 02:46:16 / 2:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -64.8014° West, 18.3178° North, depth 26 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 26 km (16 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/03/16 / 2016-03-15 06:46:16 / March 15, 2016 @ 6:46 am.

Close 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). Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabel Segunda, Saint Croix, Culebra.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 13 km E of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8014° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3178° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km E 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 2016-03-15 06:46:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-15 09:40:29 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.14822202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190.8 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 pr16075002 Id of event.
Event Code 16075002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16075002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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