Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 87 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (54 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr16130018. Unique identifier: pr16130018. Exact location, longitude -64.5566° West, latitude 19.2035° North, depth = 42 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 42 km (26 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/05/16 / 2016-05-09 08:10:13 / May 9, 2016 @ 8:10 am. The temblor was picked up at 04:10:13 / 4:10 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 87 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	-64.5566° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2035° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	87km 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	2016-05-09 08:10:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-09 12:14:42	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.89023045	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	324	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	pr16130018	Id of event.
Event Code	16130018	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16130018,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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