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Minor earthquake 3.21 mag, 48 km SW of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on October 6, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.4453S, -65.031WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.21 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Christiansted in U.S. Virgin Islands. Id of earthquake: pr2018279005. Event ids that are associated: pr2018279005. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/10/18 / 2018-10-06 14:44:48 / October 6, 2018 @ 2:44 pm. Exact location, longitude -65.031° West, latitude 17.4453° North, depth = 33 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 33 km (21 miles). The temblor was picked up at 10:44:48 / 10:44 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saint Croix. The epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 48 km SW of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.21 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.031° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.4453° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 48km SW 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 2018-10-06 14:44:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-06 17:41:26 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 159 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 1.0744 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 334 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 pr2018279005 Id of event.
Event Code 2018279005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018279005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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