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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.1512S, -65.2194WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 94 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (58 miles). Event id: us70008i7g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008i7g. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.89 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 04:20:18 / 4:20 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 29/03/20 / 2020-03-29 08:20:18 / March 29, 2020 @ 8:20 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.2194 West, latitude 19.1512 North, depth = 18.89 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2194° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1512° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km 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 2020-03-29 08:20:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-29 08:38:33 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 271 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.841 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 147 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008i7g Id of event.
Event Code 70008i7g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008i7g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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