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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on July 25, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.853S, -64.7145WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 02:11:24 / 2:11 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr15206003. Event ids that are associated: pr15206003. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -64.7145° West, 18.853° North, depth 11 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/07/15 / 2015-07-25 06:11:24 / July 25, 2015 @ 6:11 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 49 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.7145° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.853° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 49km NNW 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 2015-07-25 06:11:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-25 08:29:52 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.44376775 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 255.6 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 pr15206003 Id of event.
Event Code 15206003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15206003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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