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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on May 28, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0976S, -65.0189WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 84 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (52 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -65.0189° West, 19.0976° North, depth 75 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16149005. Id of event: pr16149005. The temblor was picked up at 09:45:13 / 9:45 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75 km (47 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/05/16 / 2016-05-28 13:45:13 / May 28, 2016 @ 1:45 pm.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 84 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 -65.0189° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0976° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km 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 2016-05-28 13:45:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-28 15:46:37 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.74470337 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 273.6 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 pr16149005 Id of event.
Event Code 16149005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16149005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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