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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on October 15, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.926S, -64.917WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The temblor was detected at 09:19:58 / 9:19 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52 km (32 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr16289010. Unique identifier: pr16289010. Global time and date of event 15/10/16 / 2016-10-15 13:19:58 / October 15, 2016 @ 1:19 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -64.917 West, latitude 18.926 North, depth = 52 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Charlotte Amalie, Road Town (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 64 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.917° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.926° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64km 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 2016-10-15 13:19:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-10-15 17:31:08 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 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 121 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.57222684 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 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 pr16289010 Id of event.
Event Code 16289010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16289010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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