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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on October 28, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.183S, -64.5651WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 97 kilometers (60 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, longitude -64.5651 West, latitude 19.183 North, depth = 35 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/10/24 / 2024-10-28 01:02:55 / October 28, 2024 @ 1:02 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nnjg. Id of event: us7000nnjg. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:02:55 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tortola (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (51 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 97 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5651° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.183° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97 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 01:02:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-28 01:21:07 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 188 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 0.76 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 252 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 us7000nnjg Id of event.
Event Code 7000nnjg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nnjg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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