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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on March 2, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9753S, -65.1742WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:36:17 / 12:36 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000pwct. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pwct. The epicenter was at a depth of 32.792 km (20 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/03/25 / 2025-03-02 00:36:17 / March 2, 2025 @ 12:36 am. Exact location of event, longitude -65.1742 West, latitude 18.9753 North, depth = 32.792 km.

The epicenter was 88 km (55 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Luquillo (c. 8 300 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luquillo, Fajardo, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. 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: 74 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.1742° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9753° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.792 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74 km NNW 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 2025-03-02 00:36:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-02 00:53:55 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 284 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 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.653 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 152 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000pwct Id of event.
Event Code 6000pwct An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pwct, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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