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

Posted by admin on September 5, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1742S, -64.9335WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 90 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (56 miles). Id of earthquake: pr15248041. Event ids that are associated: pr15248041. The temblor was picked up at 13:49:09 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/09/15 / 2015-09-05 17:49:09 / September 5, 2015 @ 5:49 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 44 km, -64.9335° West, 19.1742° North.

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 90 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.9335° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1742° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km 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 2015-09-05 17:49:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-05 22:22:11 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.81746691 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 280.8 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 pr15248041 Id of event.
Event Code 15248041 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15248041, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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