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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 71 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.9693S, -65.098WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:10:33 / 5:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 41 km, -65.098° West, 18.9693° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/05/19 / 2019-05-31 21:10:33 / May 31, 2019 @ 9:10 pm. Unique identifier: pr2019151013. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019151013. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.098° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9693° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km 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 2019-05-31 21:10:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-01 01:30:00 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 129 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 1.1171 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 340 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 pr2019151013 Id of event.
Event Code 2019151013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019151013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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