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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 121 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.4318S, -65.0856WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 121 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (75 miles). The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 03:04:36 / 3:04 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 41 km (25 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -65.0856 West, latitude 19.4318 North, depth = 41 km. Event id: pr16338004. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16338004. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/12/16 / 2016-12-03 07:04:36 / December 3, 2016 @ 7:04 am UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 121 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.0856° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4318° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 121km 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 2016-12-03 07:04:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-03 07:44:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 199 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.0815716 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 284.4 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 pr16338004 Id of event.
Event Code 16338004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16338004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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