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Minor earthquake, 3.42 mag has occurred near Christiansted in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on November 27, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 17.5176S, -64.2903WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.42 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Christiansted in U.S. Virgin Islands. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/11/19 / 2019-11-27 00:18:39 / November 27, 2019 @ 12:18 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019331000. Id of event: pr2019331000. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16 km (10 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.2903 West, latitude 17.5176 North, depth = 16 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:18:39 / 8:18 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saint Croix (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 50 km ESE of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.42 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.2903° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 17.5176° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50km ESE of Christiansted, 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 2019-11-27 00:18:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-27 04:28:39 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 180 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.0527 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 198 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 pr2019331000 Id of event.
Event Code 2019331000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019331000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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