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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on September 13, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.7341S, -64.8725WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Event id: pr15256008. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15256008. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37 km (23 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/09/15 / 2015-09-13 21:57:46 / September 13, 2015 @ 9:57 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -64.8725° West, latitude 18.7341° North, depth = 37 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:57:46 / 5:57 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 43 km (27 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Cruz Bay, Charlotte Amalie (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and two and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 43 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8725° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7341° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43km N 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 2015-09-13 21:57:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-13 22:24:30 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 129 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 10 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 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205.2 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 pr15256008 Id of event.
Event Code 15256008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15256008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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