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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Virgin Islands region


Earthquake location 18.6588S, -64.8295WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes Virgin Islands region kilometers (0 miles) from Virgin Islands region on Friday. Id of earthquake: pr2018341008. Event ids that are associated: pr2018341008. The temblor was detected at 18:15:15 / 6:15 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.8295 West, latitude 18.6588 North, depth = 42 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/12/18 / 2018-12-07 18:15:15 / December 7, 2018 @ 6:15 pm.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay.

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

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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: Virgin Islands region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8295° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6588° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Virgin Islands region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-12-07 18:15:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-08 00:49:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 148 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.1428 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 337 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 pr2018341008 Id of event.
Event Code 2018341008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018341008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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