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Minor earthquake, 3.82 mag strikes near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.2455S, -64.1596WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.82 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, longitude -64.1596 West, latitude 18.2455 North, depth = 79 km. The 3.82-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:57:32 / 9:57 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2021070007. Id of event: pr2021070007. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79 km (49 miles). Global time and date of event 11/03/21 / 2021-03-11 21:57:32 / March 11, 2021 @ 9:57 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saint Croix, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay. Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 67 km E of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.1596° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2455° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67 km E 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 2021-03-11 21:57:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-11 22:25:25 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 224 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.1024 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 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 pr2021070007 Id of event.
Event Code 2021070007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2021070007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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