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Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on July 10, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.3742S, -64.9868WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 114 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (71 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/20 / 2020-07-06 11:18:49 / July 6, 2020 @ 11:18 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -64.9868 West, latitude 19.3742 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000aip1. Unique identifier: us7000aip1. The temblor was picked up at 11:18:49 / 11:18 am (local time epicenter).

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 three, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 114 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.9868° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3742° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114 km N 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 2020-07-06 11:18:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-10 13:11:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 148 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.472 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 240 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000aip1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000aip1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000aip1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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