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Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag has occurred near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.1773S, -64.9646WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The temblor was detected at 10:41:57 / 10:41 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/02/18 / 2018-02-07 14:41:57 / February 7, 2018 @ 2:41 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018038004. Unique identifier: pr2018038004. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 138 km (86 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -64.9646° West, 18.1773° North, depth 138 km.

Nearby 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). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Punta Santiago, Luquillo, Naguabo (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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 four, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km S of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.43 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.9646° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1773° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 138 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km S 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 2018-02-07 14:41:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-07 16:31:38 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 181 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 0.8849 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 349 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 pr2018038004 Id of event.
Event Code 2018038004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018038004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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