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Minor earthquake: M3.06 quake has struck near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on November 20, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.2613S, -65.221WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 106 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (66 miles). Global time and date of event 20/11/19 / 2019-11-20 09:29:54 / November 20, 2019 @ 9:29 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 05:29:54 / 5:29 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 61 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019324010. Id of event: pr2019324010. Exact location, longitude -65.221° West, latitude 19.2613° North, depth = 61 km.

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 106 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.06 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.221° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2613° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106km 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 2019-11-20 09:29:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-20 12:08:48 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 144 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.2833 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 330 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 pr2019324010 Id of event.
Event Code 2019324010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019324010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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