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Minor earthquake, 3.16 mag was detected near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on November 6, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8746S, -65.0468WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) strikes 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Tuesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019310000. Id of event: pr2019310000. The epicenter was at a depth of 29 km (18 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:54:39 / 9:54 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/11/19 / 2019-11-06 01:54:39 / November 6, 2019 @ 1:54 am. Exact location of event, depth 29 km, -65.0468° West, 18.8746° North.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Tortola, Road Town (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close 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).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 60 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.0468° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8746° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 60km 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 2019-11-06 01:54:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-06 03:53:55 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 154 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.0862 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 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 pr2019310000 Id of event.
Event Code 2019310000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019310000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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