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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 85 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on September 8, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0901S, -64.646WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 01:19:53 / 1:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -64.646° West, 19.0901° North, depth 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bjht. Id of event: us7000bjht. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/09/20 / 2020-09-08 01:19:53 / September 8, 2020 @ 1:19 am.

Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. 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: 85 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.646° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0901° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85 km N 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 2020-09-08 01:19:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-08 01:31:05 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 178 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 1.48 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 214 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 us7000bjht Id of event.
Event Code 7000bjht An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bjht, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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