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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on June 24, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4762S, -65.2332WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 129 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (80 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 24/06/16 / 2016-06-24 08:36:50 / June 24, 2016 @ 8:36 am UTC/GMT. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:36:50 / 4:36 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 68 km (42 miles). Id of earthquake: pr16176004. Event ids that are associated: pr16176004. Exact location of event, depth 68 km, -65.2332° West, 19.4762° North.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 129 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2332° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4762° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 129km NNW 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 2016-06-24 08:36:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-24 12:00:06 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 168 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.14894525 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 284.4 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 pr16176004 Id of event.
Event Code 16176004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16176004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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