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Minor earthquake, 3.33 mag strikes near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.1876S, -64.699WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) was reported 95 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands (59 miles) on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/03/21 / 2021-03-14 00:28:11 / March 14, 2021 @ 12:28 am UTC/GMT. The 3.33-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:28:11 / 12:28 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2021073001. Event ids that are associated: pr2021073001. Exact location of event, longitude -64.699 West, latitude 19.1876 North, depth = 37 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37 km (23 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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 3.33 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.699° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1876° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37 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 2021-03-14 00:28:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-14 00:40:28 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 171 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.5541 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 339 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 pr2021073001 Id of event.
Event Code 2021073001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2021073001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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