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Minor earthquake: M2.7 quake strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.5613S, -64.5774WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.7 (mg/mb) has striked on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The temblor was reported at 12:59:27 / 12:59 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 26 km (16 miles). Global time of event 2014-12-15 04:59:27 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -64.5774 West, latitude 18.5613 North, depth 26 km.

Close countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). The epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5774° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5613° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km NNE of Road Town, British 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 2014-12-15 16:59:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2014-12-15 18:58:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 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 112 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.14822202 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.01 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 302.4 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 pr14349005 Id of event.
Event Code 14349005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS pr14349005 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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