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Minor earthquake 3.68 mag, 92 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on March 13, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1281S, -64.529WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.68 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. The temblor was reported at 21:38:23 / 9:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/03/21 / 2021-03-13 21:38:23 / March 13, 2021 @ 9:38 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr2021072005. Event ids that are associated: us7000dj5s, pr2021072005. Exact location of event, longitude -64.529 West, latitude 19.1281 North, depth = 35 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 92 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.68 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.529° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1281° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92 km NNE 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 2021-03-13 21:38:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-13 22:11:39 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 208 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.6475 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 337 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 pr2021072005 Id of event.
Event Code 2021072005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000dj5s,pr2021072005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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