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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on January 31, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9246S, -65.1678WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday. Event id: us6000ddhc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000ddhc. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:14:28 / 9:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -65.1678° West, latitude 18.9246° North, depth = 35 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/01/21 / 2021-01-31 21:14:28 / January 31, 2021 @ 9:14 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cruz Bay, Culebra, Charlotte Amalie. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days sixty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 69 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.1678° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9246° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69 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 2021-01-31 21:14:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-31 21:54:02 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 138 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 1.011 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 329 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 us6000ddhc Id of event.
Event Code 6000ddhc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ddhc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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