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Minor earthquake, 3.39 mag was detected near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.269666666667S, -64.7695WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.39 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 103 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands (64 miles). Global time and date of event 28/10/24 / 2024-10-28 08:49:59 / October 28, 2024 @ 8:49 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr71463953. Event ids that are associated: pr71463953. Exact location of event, depth 24.86 km, -64.7695° West, 19.269666666667° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.86 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.39-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:49:59 / 8:49 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-eight 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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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. 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: 103 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.39 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.7695° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.269666666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.86 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103 km N 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 08:49:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-28 09:09:08 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 177 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 0.8567 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 285 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 pr71463953 Id of event.
Event Code 71463953 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71463953, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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