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Minor earthquake, 2.94 mag was detected near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.0845S, -64.956833333333WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.98 km (10 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/04/24 / 2024-04-24 19:05:14 / April 24, 2024 @ 7:05 pm. Unique identifier: pr71446433. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71446433. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.956833333333 West, latitude 18.0845 North, depth = 15.98 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:05:14 / 7:05 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fajardo, Ceiba, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km S of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.94 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.956833333333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0845° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.98 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km S 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 2024-04-24 19:05:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-26 00:51:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 133 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 0.2664 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 113 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 pr71446433 Id of event.
Event Code 71446433 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71446433, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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