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Minor earthquake 2.9 mag, 28 km S of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.0867S, -64.8864WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Unique identifier: pr15208004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15208004. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 12:27:29 / July 27, 2015 @ 12:27 pm. The temblor was detected at 08:27:29 / 8:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -64.8864° West, 18.0867° North, depth 18 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabel Segunda, Culebra, Tortola. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 43 km (26 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 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: 28 km S of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8864° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.0867° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28km 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 2015-07-27 12:27:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-27 17:04:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 129 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.2703929 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223.2 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 pr15208004 Id of event.
Event Code 15208004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15208004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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