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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 58 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on January 8, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8661S, -64.9695WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday. Event id: us1000c1vi. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000c1vi. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:45:23 / 7:45 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/01/18 / 2018-01-07 23:45:23 / January 7, 2018 @ 11:45 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -64.9695° West, latitude 18.8661° North, depth = 35 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabel Segunda, Fajardo, Culebra. Event epicenter was 94 km (58 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 58 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.9695° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km 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 2018-01-07 23:45:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-08 00:25:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 298 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.193 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000c1vi Id of event.
Event Code 1000c1vi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000c1vi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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