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Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag was detected near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on March 14, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.2636S, -64.719WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 103 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands (64 miles). Exact location of event, depth 44 km, -64.719° West, 19.2636° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/03/21 / 2021-03-14 05:07:23 / March 14, 2021 @ 5:07 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 05:07:23 / 5:07 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr2021073005. Event ids that are associated: pr2021073005.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 103 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.43 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.719° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2636° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103 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 05:07:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-14 05:56:48 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 181 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.5919 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 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 pr2021073005 Id of event.
Event Code 2021073005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2021073005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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