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Minor earthquake 2.7 mag, 37 km SSE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.0939S, -64.5124WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.7 (mg/mb) has striked on Wednesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The temblor was reported at 10:27:17 / 10:27 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 95 km (59 miles). Global time of event 2015-01-07 02:27:17 UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -64.5124 West, latitude 18.0939 North, depth 95 km.

Close countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Saint Croix, Cruz Bay.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5124° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0939° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km SSE 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 2015-01-07 14:27:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-01-08 07:32:49 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 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 112 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 0.33596992 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 288 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 pr15007000 Id of event.
Event Code 15007000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS pr15007000 A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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