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Minor earthquake: M3.63 quake has struck near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on December 6, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.7078S, -64.4583WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.63 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 54 kilometers (34 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. The 3.63-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:13:59 / 5:13 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 58 km (36 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/12/20 / 2020-12-06 17:13:59 / December 6, 2020 @ 5:13 pm. Exact location, longitude -64.4583° West, latitude 18.7078° North, depth = 58 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2020341004. Unique identifier: pr2020341004.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 34 km (21 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (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 five, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 54 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.63 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.4583° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7078° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 58 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 54 km NE 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 2020-12-06 17:13:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-06 17:59:26 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 203 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.5012 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 341 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 pr2020341004 Id of event.
Event Code 2020341004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020341004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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