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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 86 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.1223S, -64.8631WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 86 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (53 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/02/21 / 2021-02-06 08:31:27 / February 6, 2021 @ 8:31 am. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:31:27 / 8:31 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000df3d. Event ids that are associated: us6000df3d. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -64.8631° West, 19.1223° North, depth 35 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days seventy-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor 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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 86 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 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8631° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1223° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86 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 08:31:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-06 09:06:00 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 129 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 1.35 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 234 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000df3d Id of event.
Event Code 6000df3d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000df3d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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