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Minor earthquake 3.71 mag, 102 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.1405S, -64.3245WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.71 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 102 kilometers (63 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32 km (20 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/09/20 / 2020-09-05 06:31:47 / September 5, 2020 @ 6:31 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -64.3245° West, 19.1405° North, depth 32 km. The temblor was detected at 06:31:47 / 6:31 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2020249003. Event ids that are associated: us7000bic5, pr2020249003.

Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 83 km (52 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 102 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.71 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.3245° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1405° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102 km NNE of Cruz Bay, 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 2020-09-05 06:31:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-05 14:34:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 212 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.8222 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 339 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 pr2020249003 Id of event.
Event Code 2020249003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bic5,pr2020249003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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