Minor earthquake, 2.86 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:41:21 / 7:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -64.5126° West, 18.8413° North, depth 72 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/04/19 / 2019-04-21 23:41:21 / April 21, 2019 @ 11:41 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2019111014. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019111014. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 72 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Event epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 48 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.86 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.5126° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8413° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	72 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48km NNE 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	2019-04-21 23:41:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-04-22 05:24:50	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	126	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.6587	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	343	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	pr2019111014	Id of event.
Event Code	2019111014	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019111014,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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