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Minor earthquake 3.72 mag, 138 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on December 14, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.5593S, -64.5645WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.72 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 138 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands (86 miles). The temblor was reported at 06:24:57 / 6:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/12/24 / 2024-12-14 06:24:57 / December 14, 2024 @ 6:24 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2024349000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2024349000. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 45 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.5645 West, latitude 19.5593 North, depth = 45 km.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 fourteen, in the past 30 days sixty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 138 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.72 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5645° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5593° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 138 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 2024-12-14 06:24:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-14 06:57:47 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 213 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 1.1455 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 302 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 pr2024349000 Id of event.
Event Code 2024349000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2024349000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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