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Minor earthquake: M3.33 quake has struck near Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.278166666667S, -64.5245WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) was reported 108 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands (67 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.5245 West, latitude 19.278166666667 North, depth = 28.81 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/11/24 / 2024-11-24 01:53:52 / November 24, 2024 @ 1:53 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.81 km (18 miles). Id of earthquake: pr71466583. Event ids that are associated: pr71466583. The 3.33-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:53:52 / 1:53 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days sixty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 108 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.33 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5245° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.278166666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 108 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 2024-11-24 01:53:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-24 02:50:26 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 171 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 0.8582 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 300 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 pr71466583 Id of event.
Event Code 71466583 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71466583, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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