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

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 80 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (50 miles) on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17105026. Id of event: pr17105026. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/04/17 / 2017-04-15 06:00:57 / April 15, 2017 @ 6:00 am. The temblor was reported at 02:00:57 / 2:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -64.7126° West, latitude 19.142° North, depth = 47 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 47 km (29 miles).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days eighty and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 80 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.7126° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.142° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	80km 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	2017-04-15 06:00:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-15 08:58:16	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	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	0.80758544	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	313.2	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	pr17105026	Id of event.
Event Code	17105026	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17105026,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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