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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on October 2, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.3881S, -65.1931WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 119 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (74 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/10/18 / 2018-10-02 10:14:06 / October 2, 2018 @ 10:14 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2018275005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018275005. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 85 km (53 miles). The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:14:06 / 6:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -65.1931 West, latitude 19.3881 North, depth = 85 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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. 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: 119 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.1931° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3881° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 119km 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 2018-10-02 10:14:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-02 11:17:20 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 199 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.408 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 330 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 pr2018275005 Id of event.
Event Code 2018275005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018275005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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