Minor earthquake: M2.8 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 82 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (51 miles). The temblor was picked up at 09:13:57 / 9:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -64.5111° West, 19.156° North, depth 40 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/16 / 2016-01-07 13:13:57 / January 7, 2016 @ 1:13 pm. Event id: pr16007059. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16007059. The epicenter was at a depth of 40 km (25 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-two, in the last 10 days sixty-two, in the past 30 days eighty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 82 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.5111° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.156° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	40 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	82km N 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	2016-01-07 13:13:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-07 23:16:52	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	0.90280686	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	342	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	pr16007059	Id of event.
Event Code	16007059	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16007059,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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