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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on August 11, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9167S, -64.364WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The temblor was reported at 04:49:04 / 4:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -64.364° West, 18.9167° North, depth 12 km. Event id: pr15223003. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15223003. Global time and date of event 11/08/15 / 2015-08-11 08:49:04 / August 11, 2015 @ 8:49 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days seventy-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 61 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.364° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9167° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61km 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 2015-08-11 08:49:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-11 15:42:15 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 129 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.42580144 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 298.8 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 pr15223003 Id of event.
Event Code 15223003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15223003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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