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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.2373S, -64.8709WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 99 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (62 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/02/21 / 2021-02-06 12:40:17 / February 6, 2021 @ 12:40 pm. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:40:17 / 12:40 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000df4s. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000df4s. Exact location of event, longitude -64.8709 West, latitude 19.2373 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days eighty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 99 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8709° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2373° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99 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 2021-02-06 12:40:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-06 12:53:14 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 259 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 1.43 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.5 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000df4s Id of event.
Event Code 6000df4s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000df4s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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