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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 74 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

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Earthquake location 19.0068S, -64.8186WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, longitude -64.8186 West, latitude 19.0068 North, depth = 13 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/04/24 / 2024-04-28 19:42:21 / April 28, 2024 @ 7:42 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr2024119007. Event ids that are associated: us6000muqe, pr2024119007. The temblor was picked up at 19:42:21 / 7:42 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Charlotte Amalie, Road Town. The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

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

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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: 74 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8186° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0068° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74 km N 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 2024-04-28 19:42:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-10 16:32:05 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 188 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 ,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6247 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 272 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 pr2024119007 Id of event.
Event Code 2024119007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000muqe,pr2024119007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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