Minor earthquake, 2.95 mag has occurred near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.95 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Unique identifier: pr2017240024. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2017240024. The temblor was detected at 10:43:36 / 10:43 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 25 km (16 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/08/17 / 2017-08-28 14:43:36 / August 28, 2017 @ 2:43 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.9096 West, latitude 18.1783 North, depth = 25 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Isabel Segunda, Saint Croix. Event epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 18 km S of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.95 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.9096° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.1783° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km S of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. 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	2017-08-28 14:43:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-08-28 16:05:30	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	134	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	0.3946	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	223	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	pr2017240024	Id of event.
Event Code	2017240024	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017240024,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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