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Minor earthquake, 3.11 mag was detected near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.627S, -64.921WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019067002. Unique identifier: pr2019067002. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/03/19 / 2019-03-08 01:18:38 / March 8, 2019 @ 1:18 am. Exact location, longitude -64.921° West, latitude 18.627° North, depth = 45 km. The temblor was detected at 21:18:38 / 9:18 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabel Segunda, Culebra, Tortola (min 5000 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). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (25 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 31 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.11 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.921° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.627° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km 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 2019-03-08 01:18:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-08 04:45:56 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 149 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 1.0469 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 347 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 pr2019067002 Id of event.
Event Code 2019067002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019067002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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