Minor earthquake: M3.32 quake has struck near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/11/24 / 2024-11-05 16:46:51 / November 5, 2024 @ 4:46 pm. Event id: pr71464873. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71464873. The temblor was picked up at 16:46:51 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.39 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude -64.568166666667° West, latitude 19.164° North, depth = 9.39 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tortola (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 95 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.32 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.568166666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.164° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	9.39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	95 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	2024-11-05 16:46:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-11-05 17:47:07	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	170	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7415	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	293	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	pr71464873	Id of event.
Event Code	71464873	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr71464873,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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