Minor earthquake, 3.41 mag has occurred near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.41 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/05/24 / 2024-05-15 05:49:55 / May 15, 2024 @ 5:49 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr71448843. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71448843. The temblor was picked up at 05:49:55 / 5:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 8.49 km, -64.555666666667° West, 18.8825° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.49 km (5 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 65 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.41 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.555666666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8825° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.49 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	65 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	2024-05-15 05:49:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-15 06:18:51	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	179	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4639	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.4 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	289	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	pr71448843	Id of event.
Event Code	71448843	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71448843,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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