Minor earthquake, 2.98 mag has occurred near Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018020002. Id of event: pr2018020002. Exact location of earthquake, -65.1081° West, 18.9203° North, depth 43 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 23:26:15 / 11:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/01/18 / 2018-01-20 03:26:15 / January 20, 2018 @ 3:26 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tortola, Road Town, Cruz Bay (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (47 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). 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).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.98 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.1081° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9203° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km 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	2018-01-20 03:26:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-01-20 08:00:34	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		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	137	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	1.0744	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.17 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	343	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	pr2018020002	Id of event.
Event Code	2018020002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018020002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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