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


Earthquake location 18.8724S, -65.0104WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:04:07 / 8:04 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/05/16 / 2016-05-16 00:04:07 / May 16, 2016 @ 12:04 am. Id of earthquake: pr16137000. Event ids that are associated: pr16137000. Exact location, longitude -65.0104° West, latitude 18.8724° North, depth = 16 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Tortola, Road Town. Event epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). 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).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 59 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.0104° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8724° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59km 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 2016-05-16 00:04:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-16 00:25:34 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.52102286 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 262.8 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 pr16137000 Id of event.
Event Code 16137000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16137000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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