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Minor earthquake, 3.44 mag has occurred near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on April 11, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0206S, -64.9845WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) was reported 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 88 km (55 miles). The temblor was picked up at 05:30:39 / 5:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -64.9845° West, latitude 19.0206° North, depth = 88 km. Global time and date of event 11/04/18 / 2018-04-11 09:30:39 / April 11, 2018 @ 9:30 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018101014. Id of event: pr2018101014.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cruz Bay, Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). 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 76 km (47 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 75 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.44 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.9845° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0206° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 88 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km 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 2018-04-11 09:30:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-11 13:11:55 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 182 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.2324 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 316 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 pr2018101014 Id of event.
Event Code 2018101014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018101014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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