Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (mg/mb) was reported Tuesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The temblor was reported at 19:57:01 / 7:57 pm (local time epicenter) at a depth of 46 km (29 miles). Global time of event 24/03/15 / 2015-03-24 23:57:01 / March 24, 2015 @ 11:57 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -64.4483 West, latitude 18.8999 North, depth 46 km, unique identifier, pr15083004.

Close countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Road Town, Tortola.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.4483° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8999° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56km 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	2015-03-24 23:57:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-03-25 03:53:15	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	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	121	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	3	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.98635018	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	349.2	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	pr15083004	Id of event.
Event Code	15083004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15083004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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