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Minor earthquake: M3.54 quake has struck near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on March 22, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.2873S, -65.0528WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.54 (ml/mb) strikes 105 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (65 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.0528 West, latitude 19.2873 North, depth = 36 km. Event id: pr2018081009. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018081009. The temblor was picked up at 18:35:24 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/03/18 / 2018-03-22 22:35:24 / March 22, 2018 @ 10:35 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days sixty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 105 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.54 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.0528° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2873° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105km 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 2018-03-22 22:35:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-22 23:11:02 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 193 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 1.3946 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 333 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 pr2018081009 Id of event.
Event Code 2018081009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018081009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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