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Minor earthquake: M3.21 quake has struck near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.031S, -65.1246WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) strikes 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Saturday. Unique identifier: pr2019006001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019006001. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34 km (21 miles). Global time and date of event 06/01/19 / 2019-01-06 00:15:04 / January 6, 2019 @ 12:15 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -65.1246 West, latitude 19.031 North, depth = 34 km. The 3.21-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:15:04 / 8:15 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 78 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.21 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.1246° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.031° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78km 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 2019-01-06 00:15:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-06 05:12:25 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 159 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.1465 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 342 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 pr2019006001 Id of event.
Event Code 2019006001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019006001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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