Minor earthquake: M2.92 quake has struck near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The 2.92-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:13:36 / 9:13 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Event id: pr2020287012. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020287012. Exact location of event, longitude -65.0793 West, latitude 18.7138 North, depth = 24 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/10/20 / 2020-10-13 21:13:36 / October 13, 2020 @ 9:13 pm.

Close 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). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Luquillo, Fajardo.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 44 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.92 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.0793° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7138° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44 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	2020-10-13 21:13:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-13 23:27:49	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	131	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	,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	3	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.9586	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.19 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	340	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	pr2020287012	Id of event.
Event Code	2020287012	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020287012,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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