Minor earthquake, 2.91 mag strikes near Christiansted in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.91 (ml/mb) strikes 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Christiansted in U.S. Virgin Islands on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 28/12/18 / 2018-12-28 02:15:44 / December 28, 2018 @ 2:15 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.91-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:15:44 / 10:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.0665 West, latitude 17.7103 North, depth = 30 km. Event id: pr2018362006. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018362006.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cruz Bay, Charlotte Amalie, Culebra (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 38 km W of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.91 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.0665° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.7103° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	30 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38km W of Christiansted, 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	2018-12-28 02:15:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-28 05:31:28	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	130	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8936	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	344	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	pr2018362006	Id of event.
Event Code	2018362006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018362006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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