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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Christiansted in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on January 11, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 16.3866S, -65.1693WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 158 km SSW of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands (98 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 15.63 km (10 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -65.1693° West, 16.3866° North, depth 15.63 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/01/18 / 2018-01-11 17:44:48 / January 11, 2018 @ 5:44 pm. Id of earthquake: us2000cim4. Event ids that are associated: us2000cim4. The temblor was reported at 13:44:48 / 1:44 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 158 km SSW of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.1693° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 16.3866° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 158km SSW of Christiansted, 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 2018-01-11 17:44:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-01-11 23:11:55 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.807 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.66 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 239 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 us2000cim4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000cim4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000cim4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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