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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on April 14, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.5158S, -65.2083WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 133 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (83 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 38 km (24 miles). Exact location of event, depth 38 km, -65.2083° West, 19.5158° North. Unique identifier: pr2019104000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019104000. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:35:30 / 11:35 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/04/19 / 2019-04-14 03:35:30 / April 14, 2019 @ 3:35 am.

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

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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. 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: 133 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2083° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5158° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 133km 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 2019-04-14 03:35:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-14 09:21:41 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 138 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 1.4907 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 307 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 pr2019104000 Id of event.
Event Code 2019104000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019104000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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