Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 109 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (68 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -65.0784° West, 19.3186° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:57:58 / 4:57 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000n0il. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n0il. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/05/24 / 2024-05-23 16:57:58 / May 23, 2024 @ 4:57 pm.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 109 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.0784° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3186° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	109 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	2024-05-23 16:57:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-23 17:30:03	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	121	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.968	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	275	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	us6000n0il	Id of event.
Event Code	6000n0il	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000n0il,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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