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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on March 14, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0503S, -64.7433WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000dj7d. Id of event: us7000dj7d. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/03/21 / 2021-03-14 02:53:29 / March 14, 2021 @ 2:53 am. Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -64.7433° West, 19.0503° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was picked up at 02:53:29 / 2:53 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cruz Bay, Road Town, Tortola. Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 79 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.7433° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0503° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79 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 02:53:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-03-14 03:13:30 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 158 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 1.384 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 211 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000dj7d Id of event.
Event Code 7000dj7d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000dj7d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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