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Minor earthquake, 3.29 mag has occurred near Christiansted in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Christiansted in U.S. Virgin Islands on Friday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71461768. Id of event: pr71461768. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.608333333333 West, latitude 18.041333333333 North, depth = 101.91 km. The 3.29-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:29:34 / 1:29 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 101.91 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/10/24 / 2024-10-04 13:29:34 / October 4, 2024 @ 1:29 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 34 km NNE of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.29 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.608333333333° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.041333333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	101.91 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	34 km NNE of Christiansted, 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	2024-10-04 13:29:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-04 14:10:18	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	167	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	0.377	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.29 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	269	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	pr71461768	Id of event.
Event Code	71461768	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71461768,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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