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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.22S, -64.8201WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:56:09 / 6:56 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/02/21 / 2021-02-06 06:56:09 / February 6, 2021 @ 6:56 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.8201 West, latitude 19.22 North, depth = 24.74 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000df26. Unique identifier: us6000df26. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24.74 km (15 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola. Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 97 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8201° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.22° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.74 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97 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 2021-02-06 06:56:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-06 07:10:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 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 285 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 1.449 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000df26 Id of event.
Event Code 6000df26 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000df26, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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