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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.934S, -65.1809WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15253007. Id of event: pr15253007. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/09/15 / 2015-09-10 17:22:49 / September 10, 2015 @ 5:22 pm. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:22:49 / 1:22 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -65.1809° West, 18.934° North, depth 43 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43 km (27 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie. Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 70 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.1809° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.934° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. 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 2015-09-10 17:22:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-10 20:32:57 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.61804092 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 237.6 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 pr15253007 Id of event.
Event Code 15253007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15253007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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