Minor earthquake, 3.04 mag strikes near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.04 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 77 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 07:12:24 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -65.018° West, latitude 18.378° North, depth = 77 km. Event id: pr2019080009. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019080009. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/03/19 / 2019-03-21 11:12:24 / March 21, 2019 @ 11:12 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Naguabo, Saint Croix, Luquillo (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.04 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.018° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.378° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	77 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10km WNW 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	2019-03-21 11:12:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-21 17:25:01	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	142	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	3	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.0667	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	340	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	pr2019080009	Id of event.
Event Code	2019080009	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019080009,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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