Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag has occurred near Gros Islet in Saint Lucia

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Gros Islet in Saint Lucia. Global time and date of event 22/03/19 / 2019-03-22 10:23:03 / March 22, 2019 @ 10:23 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.38 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -60.8856° West, latitude 14.1257° North, depth = 32.38 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:23:03 / 6:23 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000jk7j. Event ids that are associated: us1000jk7j.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Le Morne-Rouge, Sainte-Marie, Petite Rivière Salée. Close country/countries, Saint Lucia (c. 161 000 pop), Martinique (c. 433 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 57 km (36 miles) from Fort-de-France (c. 90 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Le Lamentin (c. 39 200 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Le Robert (c. 23 800 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sainte-Marie (c. 20 400 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Castries (c. 20 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes 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 0, in the past 30 days 0 and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 9 km NE of Gros Islet, Saint Lucia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-60.8856° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	14.1257° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9km NE of Gros Islet, Saint Lucia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-03-22 10:23:03	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-03-22 12:05:03	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	121	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.32	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	331	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000jk7j	Id of event.
Event Code	1000jk7j	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000jk7j,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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