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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on May 31, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4335S, -65.0218WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000a39k, pr2020152019. Id of event: pr2020152019. Exact location of event, longitude -65.0218 West, latitude 18.4335 North, depth = 6 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6 km (4 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/05/20 / 2020-05-31 19:56:32 / May 31, 2020 @ 7:56 pm. The temblor was picked up at 19:56:32 / 7:56 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Río Grande, Saint Croix, Punta Santiago. Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 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).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. 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: 13 km NW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.0218° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4335° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 km NW 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 2020-05-31 19:56:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-31 20:48:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.6 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 226 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2896 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 332 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 pr2020152019 Id of event.
Event Code 2020152019 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a39k,pr2020152019, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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