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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 134 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.5114S, -64.4867WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 134 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands (83 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000nnq1. Unique identifier: us7000nnq1. The temblor was picked up at 23:27:05 / 11:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -64.4867° West, 19.5114° North, depth 21.877 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 21.877 km (14 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/10/24 / 2024-10-28 23:27:05 / October 28, 2024 @ 11:27 pm.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 134 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.4867° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5114° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.877 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 134 km NNE of Cruz Bay, 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 2024-10-28 23:27:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-28 23:45:32 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 129 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.093 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 236 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 us7000nnq1 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nnq1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nnq1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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