Minor earthquake, 3.33 mag strikes near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) was reported 95 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands (59 miles) on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/03/21 / 2021-03-14 00:28:11 / March 14, 2021 @ 12:28 am UTC/GMT. The 3.33-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:28:11 / 12:28 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2021073001. Event ids that are associated: pr2021073001. Exact location of event, longitude -64.699 West, latitude 19.1876 North, depth = 37 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37 km (23 miles).

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.33 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.699° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1876° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	95 km N 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	2021-03-14 00:28:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-03-14 00:40:28	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	171	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.5541	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	339	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	pr2021073001	Id of event.
Event Code	2021073001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2021073001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Minor earthquake, 3.33 mag strikes near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

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