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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Christiansted in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on November 29, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.2609S, -65.1641WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Christiansted in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, depth 48 km, -65.1641° West, 17.2609° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/11/15 / 2015-11-28 23:40:20 / November 28, 2015 @ 11:40 pm. The temblor was reported at 19:40:20 / 7:40 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15332014. Unique identifier: pr15332014.

Nearby country/countries, U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saint Croix (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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. 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: 72 km SW of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.1641° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.2609° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km SW 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 2015-11-28 23:40:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-29 03:38:10 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 178 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 1.04653731 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 316.8 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 pr15332014 Id of event.
Event Code 15332014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15332014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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