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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 21 km SSE of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on March 29, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.569S, -64.6396WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Christiansted in U.S. Virgin Islands on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/03/16 / 2016-03-29 03:51:24 / March 29, 2016 @ 3:51 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr16089001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16089001. Exact location, longitude -64.6396° West, latitude 17.569° North, depth = 25 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25 km (16 miles). The temblor was picked up at 23:51:24 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saint Croix (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop).

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

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km SSE of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.6396° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.569° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SSE 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 2016-03-29 03:51:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-03-29 07:21:27 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 138 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.83363658 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 298.8 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 pr16089001 Id of event.
Event Code 16089001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16089001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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