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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Virgin Islands region

Posted by admin on January 5, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.6215S, -64.4016WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes Virgin Islands region kilometers (0 miles) from Virgin Islands region on Tuesday. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:50:41 / 6:50 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global time and date of event 05/01/21 / 2021-01-05 18:50:41 / January 5, 2021 @ 6:50 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -64.4016° West, latitude 18.6215° North, depth = 35 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000d5uw. Unique identifier: us6000d5uw.

Event epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 52 km (33 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 eight, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.4016° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6215° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Virgin Islands region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-05 18:50:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-05 19:20:04 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 234 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 1.382 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 200 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 us6000d5uw Id of event.
Event Code 6000d5uw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d5uw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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