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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Christiansted in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on November 25, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.4074S, -65.2628WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Christiansted in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/11/15 / 2015-11-25 06:26:58 / November 25, 2015 @ 6:26 am UTC/GMT. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:26:58 / 2:26 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 27 km (17 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -65.2628 West, latitude 17.4074 North, depth = 27 km. Id of earthquake: pr15329001. Event ids that are associated: us10004162, pr15329001.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabel Segunda, Saint Croix (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 75 km WSW of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2628° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.4074° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km WSW of Christiansted, 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 2015-11-25 06:26:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-25 07:06:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 234 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.58390493 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 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 pr15329001 Id of event.
Event Code 15329001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004162,pr15329001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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