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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on May 14, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1495S, -65.0214WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 89 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (55 miles) on Friday. The temblor was detected at 15:32:50 / 3:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/05/16 / 2016-05-13 19:32:50 / May 13, 2016 @ 7:32 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.0214 West, latitude 19.1495 North, depth = 14 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16134009. Unique identifier: pr16134009. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days seven hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 89 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.0214° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1495° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km 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 2016-05-13 19:32:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-14 00:36:59 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.79500903 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 288 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 pr16134009 Id of event.
Event Code 16134009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16134009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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