Minor earthquake 3 mag, 55 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday. Event id: us7000amaa. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000amaa. The temblor was detected at 12:52:01 / 12:52 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -65.1512 West, latitude 18.793 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/07/20 / 2020-07-12 12:52:01 / July 12, 2020 @ 12:52 pm UTC/GMT.

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). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Isabel Segunda, Luquillo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-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.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.1512° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.793° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55 km 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	2020-07-12 12:52:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-12 13:03:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	139	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	0.926	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	315	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	us7000amaa	Id of event.
Event Code	7000amaa	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000amaa,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 55 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

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