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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag has occurred near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on April 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1007S, -64.9636WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, depth 8 km, -64.9636° West, 18.1007° North. Global time and date of event 14/04/16 / 2016-04-14 15:00:47 / April 14, 2016 @ 3:00 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). The temblor was picked up at 11:00:47 / 11:00 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr16105036. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16105036.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luquillo, Punta Santiago, Naguabo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 47 km (29 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 26 km S of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.9636° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1007° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km S 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 2016-04-14 15:00:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-14 16:15:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 200 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 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.24883333 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 111.6 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 pr16105036 Id of event.
Event Code 16105036 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16105036, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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