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Minor earthquake, 3.82 mag strikes near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.1933S, -64.7363WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.82 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Event id: pr2021039004. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2021039004. Exact location of earthquake, -64.7363° West, 19.1933° North, depth 35 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/02/21 / 2021-02-08 08:46:28 / February 8, 2021 @ 8:46 am. The temblor was detected at 08:46:28 / 8:46 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola. Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fifty-three, in the past 30 days ninety-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 95 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.7363° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1933° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95 km N 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 2021-02-08 08:46:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-08 12:26:37 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 224 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.3665 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 322 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 pr2021039004 Id of event.
Event Code 2021039004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2021039004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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