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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on June 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.013S, -64.981WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) strikes 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/06/16 / 2016-06-29 23:37:48 / June 29, 2016 @ 11:37 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00o9k4b0. Id of event: at00o9k4b0. Exact location of earthquake, -64.981° West, 19.013° North, depth 15 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 19:37:48 / 7:37 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). 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). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days seven hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 74 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.981° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.013° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km 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 2016-06-29 23:37:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-29 23:40:26 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 1 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 259 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6548718 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 205.199983584 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00o9k4b0 Id of event.
Event Code 00o9k4b0 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00o9k4b0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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