Minor earthquake: M3.02 quake has struck near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.4 km (19 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/07/24 / 2024-07-31 12:53:02 / July 31, 2024 @ 12:53 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: pr71456653. Unique identifier: pr71456653. The 3.02-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:53:02 / 12:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -65.0315° West, latitude 18.7535° North, depth = 30.4 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Tortola, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). 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).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 46 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.02 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.0315° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7535° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	30.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	46 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	2024-07-31 12:53:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-31 13:50:44	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	140	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4053	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	230	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	pr71456653	Id of event.
Event Code	71456653	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71456653,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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