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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 88 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.1364S, -65.0429WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 88 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (55 miles) on Wednesday. Event id: pr15308007. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15308007. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/11/15 / 2015-11-04 11:58:35 / November 4, 2015 @ 11:58 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -65.0429° West, latitude 19.1364° North, depth = 33 km. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:58:35 / 7:58 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 88 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.0429° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1364° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km 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 2015-11-04 11:58:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-04 15:10:26 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.78512756 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 309.6 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 pr15308007 Id of event.
Event Code 15308007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15308007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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