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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on November 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1828S, -65.1302WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 95 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (59 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -65.1302° West, 19.1828° North. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:40:43 / 8:40 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cjzw. Id of event: us7000cjzw. Global time and date of event 26/11/20 / 2020-11-26 08:40:43 / November 26, 2020 @ 8:40 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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 four, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-eight 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 95 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.1302° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1828° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95 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 2020-11-26 08:40:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-26 09:10:44 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 148 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 1.239 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 224 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 us7000cjzw Id of event.
Event Code 7000cjzw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cjzw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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