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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 97 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

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Earthquake location 19.2198S, -64.9326WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 97 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (60 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2021020013. Event ids that are associated: pr2021020013. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:28:13 / 8:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -64.9326 West, latitude 19.2198 North, depth = 39 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/01/21 / 2021-01-20 08:28:13 / January 20, 2021 @ 8:28 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39 km (24 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 97 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.9326° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2198° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97 km N 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 2021-01-20 08:28:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-20 08:47:38 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 158 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.2824 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 324 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 pr2021020013 Id of event.
Event Code 2021020013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2021020013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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