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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Virgin Islands region


Earthquake location 19.0641S, -64.4599WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported Virgin Islands region kilometers (0 miles) from Virgin Islands region on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55 km (34 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/01/16 / 2016-01-07 19:31:53 / January 7, 2016 @ 7:31 pm. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:31:53 / 7:31 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr16007072. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16007072. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.4599 West, latitude 19.0641 North, depth = 55 km.

Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-two, in the last 10 days sixty-four, in the past 30 days eighty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. 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: Virgin Islands region.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.4599° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0641° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Virgin Islands region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-07 19:31:53 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-08 01:17:51 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 0.84890794 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 345.6 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 pr16007072 Id of event.
Event Code 16007072 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16007072, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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