Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Virgin Islands region

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported Virgin Islands region kilometers (0 miles) from Virgin Islands region on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 142 km (88 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/09/15 / 2015-09-05 22:34:11 / September 5, 2015 @ 10:34 pm. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:34:11 / 10:34 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr15248044. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15248044. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.1399 West, latitude 18.0174 North, depth = 142 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cruz Bay, Saint Croix, Road Town. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Virgin Islands region.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.1399° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.0174° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	142 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Virgin Islands region	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-05 22:34:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-05 22:59:27	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	168	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.53180265	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	280.8	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	pr15248044	Id of event.
Event Code	15248044	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15248044,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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