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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on September 16, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1614S, -64.4088WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, Virgin Islands kilometers (0 miles) from Virgin Islands. Id of earthquake: us7000bp7f. Event ids that are associated: us7000bp7f. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:41:13 / 11:41 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/09/20 / 2020-09-16 23:41:13 / September 16, 2020 @ 11:41 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -64.4088° West, 19.1614° North.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tortola (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop).

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.4088° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1614° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 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 2020-09-16 23:41:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-16 23:48:49 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 188 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 1.68 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 221 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 us7000bp7f Id of event.
Event Code 7000bp7f An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bp7f, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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