Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 104 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands (65 miles) on Thursday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:18:36 / 4:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -64.4237° West, 19.2065° North, depth 35 km. Global time and date of event 23/07/20 / 2020-07-23 04:18:36 / July 23, 2020 @ 4:18 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000b2fg. Id of event: us6000b2fg.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 104 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.4237° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2065° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	104 km NNE of Cruz Bay, 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	2020-07-23 04:18:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-07-23 04:24:59	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	129	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	1.716	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	226	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	us6000b2fg	Id of event.
Event Code	6000b2fg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000b2fg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

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