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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 45 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.7014S, -65.1364WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Id of earthquake: pr15234008. Event ids that are associated: pr15234008. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 59 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 04:18:59 / 4:18 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/08/15 / 2015-08-22 08:18:59 / August 22, 2015 @ 8:18 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -65.1364 West, latitude 18.7014 North, depth = 59 km.

Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Río Grande (c. 13 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naguabo, Río Grande, Ceiba (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 45 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.1364° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7014° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 45km NNW 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 2015-08-22 08:18:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-22 08:43:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 188 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.3880722 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 201.6 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 pr15234008 Id of event.
Event Code 15234008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15234008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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