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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on September 13, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1514S, -64.458WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. The temblor was picked up at 07:12:57 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 6.16 km (4 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/09/20 / 2020-09-13 07:12:57 / September 13, 2020 @ 7:12 am. Exact location of event, longitude -64.458 West, latitude 19.1514 North, depth = 6.16 km. Event id: us7000bmmj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bmmj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola. Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 97 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.458° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1514° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97 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 2020-09-13 07:12:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-13 07:34:37 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 298 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 1.657 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000bmmj Id of event.
Event Code 7000bmmj An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bmmj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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