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Minor earthquake, 2.89 mag was detected near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on April 25, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0103S, -64.9943WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:23:06 / 12:23 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019115004. Id of event: pr2019115004. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31 km (19 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/04/19 / 2019-04-25 04:23:06 / April 25, 2019 @ 4:23 am. Exact location of earthquake, -64.9943° West, 19.0103° North, depth 31 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola, Charlotte Amalie (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 74 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.89 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.9943° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0103° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km 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 2019-04-25 04:23:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-25 09:03:54 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 128 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.2182 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 335 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 pr2019115004 Id of event.
Event Code 2019115004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019115004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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