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Minor earthquake, 3.06 mag has occurred near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on August 30, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.5226S, -65.2716WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) was reported 135 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (84 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 69 km (43 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/08/18 / 2018-08-30 06:53:22 / August 30, 2018 @ 6:53 am. Exact location of earthquake, -65.2716° West, 19.5226° North, depth 69 km. Unique identifier: pr2018242004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018242004. The temblor was detected at 02:53:22 / 2:53 am (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 135 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 3.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2716° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5226° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 135km 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 2018-08-30 06:53:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-08-30 08:53:35 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 144 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.4963 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.16 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 341 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 pr2018242004 Id of event.
Event Code 2018242004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018242004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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