Minor earthquake, 3.43 mag has occurred near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71447623, us6000mw7t. Id of event: pr71447623. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/05/24 / 2024-05-03 21:18:44 / May 3, 2024 @ 9:18 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -65.034833333333 West, latitude 18.569 North, depth = 19.48 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 19.48 km (12 miles). The 3.43-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:18:44 / 9:18 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Luquillo, Ceiba, Fajardo. Epicenter of the event was 71 km (44 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

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

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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: 27 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.43 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.034833333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.569° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.48 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, 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	2024-05-03 21:18:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-07 00:50:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2279	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	202	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	pr71447623	Id of event.
Event Code	71447623	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71447623,us6000mw7t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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