Minor earthquake 3.37 mag, 82 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.37 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/08/24 / 2024-08-07 08:04:58 / August 7, 2024 @ 8:04 am. The temblor was picked up at 08:04:58 / 8:04 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 33.06 km (21 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr71457053. Unique identifier: pr71457053. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.917166666667 West, latitude 19.089666666667 North, depth = 33.06 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola. Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (49 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop).

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

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.37 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.917166666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.089666666667° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33.06 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	82 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	2024-08-07 08:04:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-07 08:30:07	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	175	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	0.7229	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	270	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	pr71457053	Id of event.
Event Code	71457053	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71457053,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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