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Minor earthquake 3.59 mag, 95 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.1993S, -64.8296WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.59 (ml/mb) strikes 95 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (59 miles) on Saturday. The 3.59-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:10:27 / 8:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.8296 West, latitude 19.1993 North, depth = 20 km. Global time and date of event 12/09/20 / 2020-09-12 08:10:27 / September 12, 2020 @ 8:10 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20 km (12 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bmcn, pr2020256004. Id of event: pr2020256004.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 95 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.59 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8296° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1993° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95 km 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 2020-09-12 08:10:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-12 09:07:32 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 198 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.4685 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 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 pr2020256004 Id of event.
Event Code 2020256004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bmcn,pr2020256004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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