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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.6791S, -64.657WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:59:53 / 2:59 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.657 West, latitude 18.6791 North, depth = 77 km. Id of earthquake: pr15236004. Event ids that are associated: pr15236004. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/08/15 / 2015-08-24 06:59:53 / August 24, 2015 @ 6:59 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 77 km (48 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 27 km (17 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (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 two, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days eighty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 29 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.657° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6791° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29km N 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 2015-08-24 06:59:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-24 14:11:52 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.26320638 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 234 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 pr15236004 Id of event.
Event Code 15236004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15236004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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