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


Earthquake location 19.5925S, -64.4513WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 131 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (81 miles) on Friday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:12:09 / 10:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 77 km (48 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/11/16 / 2016-11-18 14:12:09 / November 18, 2016 @ 2:12 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.4513 West, latitude 19.5925 North, depth = 77 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16323020. Id of event: pr16323020.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 131 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.4513° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5925° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 131km 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 2016-11-18 14:12:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-18 17:08:25 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.28998075 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 327.6 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 pr16323020 Id of event.
Event Code 16323020 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16323020, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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