Minor earthquake, 3.57 mag was detected near Saint Croix in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.57 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Saint Croix in U.S. Virgin Islands. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 00:12:17 / 12:12 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2020321000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020321000. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/11/20 / 2020-11-16 00:12:17 / November 16, 2020 @ 12:12 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.1376 West, latitude 17.5566 North, depth = 34 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saint Croix (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 67 km ESE of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.57 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.1376° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.5566° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	67 km ESE of Saint Croix, 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	2020-11-16 00:12:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-11-16 01:26:54	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	196	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.8085	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	348	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	pr2020321000	Id of event.
Event Code	2020321000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2020321000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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