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

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:49:41 / 8:49 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/12/15 / 2015-12-17 00:49:41 / December 17, 2015 @ 12:49 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr15351001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15351001. Exact location of event, depth 33 km, -64.9555° West, 18.9892° North.

Epicenter of the event was 72 km (44 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Charlotte Amalie, Road Town.

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-two, in the past 30 days fifty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 71 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.9555° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9892° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	71km N 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	2015-12-17 00:49:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-12-17 03:52:51	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	0.74560169	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	331.2	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	pr15351001	Id of event.
Event Code	15351001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15351001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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