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Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.815S, -65.0856WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 162 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (101 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 53 km (33 miles). The 2.81-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:48:26 / 1:48 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/05/19 / 2019-05-16 05:48:26 / May 16, 2019 @ 5:48 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019136006. Id of event: pr2019136006. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.0856 West, latitude 19.815 North, depth = 53 km.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 162 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.0856° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.815° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 162km NNW 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 2019-05-16 05:48:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-16 09:15:21 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 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 1.8066 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 328 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 pr2019136006 Id of event.
Event Code 2019136006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019136006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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