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Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag has occurred near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on August 7, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.198S, -65.1061WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was reported 96 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (60 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -65.1061 West, latitude 19.198 North, depth = 32 km. Global time and date of event 07/08/19 / 2019-08-07 22:30:11 / August 7, 2019 @ 10:30 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:30:11 / 6:30 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2019219005. Event ids that are associated: pr2019219005. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32 km (20 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 96 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.86 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.1061° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.198° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km 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 2019-08-07 22:30:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-08-07 23:47:29 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 126 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.2909 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 331 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 pr2019219005 Id of event.
Event Code 2019219005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019219005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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