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Minor earthquake, 3.23 mag strikes near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.0153S, -65.1843WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019071029. Unique identifier: pr2019071029. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/03/19 / 2019-03-12 22:46:14 / March 12, 2019 @ 10:46 pm. The 3.23-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:46:14 / 6:46 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.1843 West, latitude 19.0153 North, depth = 53 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie. Epicenter of the earthquake was 79 km (49 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 79 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.23 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.1843° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0153° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km 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 2019-03-12 22:46:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-12 23:30:42 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 161 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.6823 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 348 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 pr2019071029 Id of event.
Event Code 2019071029 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019071029, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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