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


Earthquake location 18.6648S, -65.0999WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 75 km (47 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/04/17 / 2017-04-07 06:10:41 / April 7, 2017 @ 6:10 am. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:10:41 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr17097001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17097001. Exact location of event, longitude -65.0999 West, latitude 18.6648 North, depth = 75 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Luquillo, Fajardo. Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). 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).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 39 km NNW 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 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.0999° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6648° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39km NNW 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 2017-04-07 06:10:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-07 08:47:20 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 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.39525873 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 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 pr17097001 Id of event.
Event Code 17097001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17097001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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