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Minor earthquake, 3.28 mag strikes near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.252166666667S, -65.119WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) strikes 102 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (63 miles) on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 25.26 km, -65.119° West, 19.252166666667° North. The temblor was reported at 12:25:02 / 12:25 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 25.26 km (16 miles). Unique identifier: pr71464013. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71464013. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/10/24 / 2024-10-28 12:25:02 / October 28, 2024 @ 12:25 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 102 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.28 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.119° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.252166666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102 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 2024-10-28 12:25:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-28 12:52:00 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 166 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9081 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 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 pr71464013 Id of event.
Event Code 71464013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71464013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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