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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.2773S, -64.5955WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was reported 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 07:33:42 / 7:33 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/06/17 / 2017-06-20 11:33:42 / June 20, 2017 @ 11:33 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2017171008. Unique identifier: pr2017171008. Exact location of event, depth 114 km, -64.5955° West, 18.2773° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 114 km (71 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Saint Croix, Charlotte Amalie (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

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

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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. 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: 15 km S of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5955° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2773° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km S 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 2017-06-20 11:33:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-23 02:05:56 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 128 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6877 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 332 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 pr2017171008 Id of event.
Event Code 2017171008 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017171008, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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