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Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

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Earthquake location 19.3319S, -64.9129WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 109 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (68 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36.698 km (23 miles). Exact location of event, depth 36.698 km, -64.9129° West, 19.3319° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/10/24 / 2024-10-04 13:29:32 / October 4, 2024 @ 1:29 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000nwj8. Id of event: us6000nwj8. The temblor was picked up at 13:29:32 / 1:29 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.9129° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3319° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.698 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 109 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 2024-10-04 13:29:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-20 08:57:19 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 138 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.948 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.83 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 281 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000nwj8 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nwj8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nwj8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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