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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on November 5, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9903S, -64.3525WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact location, longitude -64.3525° West, latitude 18.9903° North, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/11/24 / 2024-11-05 12:43:32 / November 5, 2024 @ 12:43 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000nq1w. Event ids that are associated: us7000nq1w. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:43:32 / 12:43 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 67 km (41 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 four, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 86 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 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.3525° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9903° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 86 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 12:43:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-05 13:48:16 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 178 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.621 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 194 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 us7000nq1w Id of event.
Event Code 7000nq1w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nq1w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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