Minor earthquake, 2.83 mag has occurred near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The temblor was reported at 04:32:49 / 4:32 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.01 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/09/24 / 2024-09-11 04:32:49 / September 11, 2024 @ 4:32 am. Unique identifier: pr71459733. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71459733. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.0405 West, latitude 18.6215 North, depth = 20.01 km.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luquillo, Ceiba, Fajardo (min 5000 pop). Close 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). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 33 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.83 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.0405° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6215° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.01 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	33 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	2024-09-11 04:32:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-09-11 04:51:04	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	123	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2793	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.13 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	219	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	pr71459733	Id of event.
Event Code	71459733	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71459733,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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