Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Friday. Exact location, longitude -64.7591° West, latitude 18.6112° North, depth = 23 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23 km (14 miles). The 2.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:30:59 / 7:30 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/03/17 / 2017-03-17 11:30:59 / March 17, 2017 @ 11:30 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr17076005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17076005.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (16 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km NW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.7591° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6112° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	23 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26km NW 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	2017-03-17 11:30:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-03-17 15:53:33	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.31620698	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	320.4	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	pr17076005	Id of event.
Event Code	17076005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17076005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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