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Minor earthquake: M3.55 quake has struck near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.2243S, -64.794WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.55 (ml/mb) was reported 98 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (61 miles) on Saturday. The 3.55-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:12:19 / 12:12 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 29 km (18 miles). Global time and date of event 06/02/21 / 2021-02-06 12:12:19 / February 6, 2021 @ 12:12 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -64.794° West, 19.2243° North, depth 29 km. Event id: pr2021037016. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2021037016.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days eighty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 98 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 3.55 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.794° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2243° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98 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 12:12:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-06 12:34:08 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 194 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 ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.3585 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 327 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 pr2021037016 Id of event.
Event Code 2021037016 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2021037016, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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