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


Earthquake location 19.0125S, -64.956WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Global time and date of event 09/04/16 / 2016-04-09 13:32:34 / April 9, 2016 @ 1:32 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16100007. Id of event: pr16100007. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:32:34 / 9:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.956 West, latitude 19.0125 North, depth = 53 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Charlotte Amalie, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eight 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 74 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 -64.956° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0125° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km 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 2016-04-09 13:32:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-09 13:51:11 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.65666847 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 306 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 pr16100007 Id of event.
Event Code 16100007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16100007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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