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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on May 25, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8276S, -64.2741WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude -64.2741° West, latitude 18.8276° North, depth = 25 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/05/17 / 2017-05-23 06:27:37 / May 23, 2017 @ 6:27 am. The temblor was picked up at 02:27:37 / 2:27 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25 km (16 miles). Event id: pr2017143008. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017143008.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 six, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 58 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.2741° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8276° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km NE 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 2017-05-23 06:27:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-25 00:42:44 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 128 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 1.1346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 332 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 pr2017143008 Id of event.
Event Code 2017143008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017143008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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