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Minor earthquake: M3.43 quake has struck near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on December 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.274166666667S, -65.097166666667WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) strikes 104 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (65 miles) on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 08:23:22 / 8:23 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr71468793. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr71468793. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 85.84 km (53 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/12/24 / 2024-12-17 08:23:22 / December 17, 2024 @ 8:23 am. Exact location of earthquake, -65.097166666667° West, 19.274166666667° North, depth 85.84 km.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days seventy-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.43 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.097166666667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.274166666667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 85.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 104 km N of Charlotte Amalie, 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 2024-12-17 08:23:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-17 08:37:27 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 181 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 0.9265 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 270 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 pr71468793 Id of event.
Event Code 71468793 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr71468793, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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