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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.1323S, -64.2829WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday. Unique identifier: us6000c7lv. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c7lv. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location, longitude -64.2829° West, latitude 18.1323° North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was reported at 22:27:52 / 10:27 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 11/10/20 / 2020-10-11 22:27:52 / October 11, 2020 @ 10:27 pm UTC/GMT.

Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Saint Croix, Cruz Bay (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 58 km ESE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.2829° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1323° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58 km ESE 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 2020-10-11 22:27:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-11 22:41:07 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 168 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 1.113 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.62 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 176 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 us6000c7lv Id of event.
Event Code 6000c7lv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c7lv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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