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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on September 6, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9664S, -65.1203WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Event id: pr15249021. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15249021. The temblor was detected at 00:02:40 / 12:02 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/09/15 / 2015-09-06 04:02:40 / September 6, 2015 @ 4:02 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.1203 West, latitude 18.9664 North, depth = 24 km.

The epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie. Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 71 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.1203° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9664° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km 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 2015-09-06 04:02:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-06 13:48:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 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 121 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.67283815 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 277.2 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 pr15249021 Id of event.
Event Code 15249021 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15249021, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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