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


Earthquake location 19.5883S, -65.2255WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 141 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands (88 miles) on Saturday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:20:09 / 9:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/11/15 / 2015-11-29 01:20:09 / November 29, 2015 @ 1:20 am. Event id: pr15333005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15333005. Exact location of event, longitude -65.2255 West, latitude 19.5883 North, depth = 62 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 62 km (39 miles).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 141 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.2255° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5883° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 141km 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 2015-11-29 01:20:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-29 05:50:41 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 1.25584477 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 280.8 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 pr15333005 Id of event.
Event Code 15333005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15333005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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