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Minor earthquake 3.15 mag, 24 km SSE of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.1268S, -64.8641WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Global time and date of event 16/07/19 / 2019-07-16 04:13:06 / July 16, 2019 @ 4:13 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.8641 West, latitude 18.1268 North, depth = 152 km. The temblor was reported at 00:13:06 / 12:13 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 152 km (94 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019197001. Id of event: pr2019197001.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabel Segunda, Culebra, Saint Croix. Close 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 46 km (29 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 24 km SSE of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.15 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8641° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1268° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 152 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km SSE 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 2019-07-16 04:13:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-16 07:41:37 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 153 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9848 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 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 pr2019197001 Id of event.
Event Code 2019197001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019197001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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