Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Unique identifier: pr16328008. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16328008. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 49 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 08:56:54 / 8:56 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 23/11/16 / 2016-11-23 12:56:54 / November 23, 2016 @ 12:56 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.0773 West, latitude 18.9494 North, depth = 49 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Tortola, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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).

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

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.0773° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9494° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	68km 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	2016-11-23 12:56:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-23 17:24:53	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	138	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	0.60636282	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	248.4	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	pr16328008	Id of event.
Event Code	16328008	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16328008,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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