Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag was detected near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Thursday. Event id: pr15211027. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15211027. The epicenter was at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 30/07/15 / 2015-07-30 21:00:42 / July 30, 2015 @ 9:00 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.128 West, latitude 18.6961 North, depth = 24 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:00:42 / 5:00 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearby 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). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ceiba, Luquillo, Isabel Segunda (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fourty, in the past 30 days sixty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 44 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.128° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6961° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km NNW 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	2015-07-30 21:00:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-07-31 00:22:46	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	121	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	0.38088568	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	226.8	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	pr15211027	Id of event.
Event Code	15211027	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15211027,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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