Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.1491 West, latitude 18.9615 North, depth = 37 km. Global time and date of event 03/09/20 / 2020-09-03 10:06:07 / September 3, 2020 @ 10:06 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 10:06:07 / 10:06 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2020247006. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000bh3q, pr2020247006. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37 km (23 miles).

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tortola, Road Town, Cruz Bay. Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

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

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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. 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: 72 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.1491° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9615° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	72 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	2020-09-03 10:06:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-03 13:19:08	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	211	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	,us,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.0775	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	324	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	pr2020247006	Id of event.
Event Code	2020247006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bh3q,pr2020247006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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