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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 99 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on January 16, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.3483S, -65.054WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 99 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (62 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30 km (19 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17015005, us10007tf9. Id of event: pr17015005. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 19:28:04 / 7:28 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 15/01/17 / 2017-01-15 23:28:04 / January 15, 2017 @ 11:28 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -65.054 West, latitude 19.3483 North, depth = 30 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-four 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 99 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.054° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3483° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km 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 2017-01-15 23:28:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-16 00:45:38 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 271 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,us, 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 1.05641877 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 295.2 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr17015005 Id of event.
Event Code 17015005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17015005,us10007tf9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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