Minor earthquake 2.8 mag, 53 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday. The epicenter was at a depth of 38 km (24 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:07:10 / 2:07 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/09/15 / 2015-09-23 18:07:10 / September 23, 2015 @ 6:07 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15266011. Id of event: pr15266011. Exact location of event, longitude -64.9654 West, latitude 18.8201 North, depth = 38 km.

Close 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). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Cruz Bay, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and two and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 53 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.9654° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8201° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	53km N 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	2015-09-23 18:07:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-23 22:12:44	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.46622563	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	219.6	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	pr15266011	Id of event.
Event Code	15266011	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15266011,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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