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

Posted by admin on December 21, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9384S, -64.9002WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The temblor was picked up at 12:14:16 / 12:14 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/12/15 / 2015-12-21 16:14:16 / December 21, 2015 @ 4:14 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30 km (19 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15355005. Unique identifier: pr15355005. Exact location of event, longitude -64.9002 West, latitude 18.9384 North, depth = 30 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cruz Bay, Charlotte Amalie, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 68 km (43 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).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days sixty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 65 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 -64.9002° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9384° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km 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 2015-12-21 16:14:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-21 21:27:59 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.58480325 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 309.6 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 pr15355005 Id of event.
Event Code 15355005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15355005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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