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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near The Valley in Anguilla


Earthquake location 18.436S, -63.2938WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from The Valley in Anguilla on Thursday. Event id: us70003wi7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019157014, us70003wi7. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Global time and date of event 06/06/19 / 2019-06-06 17:14:25 / June 6, 2019 @ 5:14 pm UTC/GMT. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:14:25 / 1:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -63.2938° West, 18.436° North, depth 35 km.

The epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Cul de Sac (c. 8 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Gustavia (c. 6 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Marigot (c. 5 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from The Valley (c. 2 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Philipsburg (c. 1 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gustavia, Philipsburg, Cul de Sac. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Anguilla (c. 13 000 pop), Saint Barthelemy (c. 8 000 pop), Saint Martin (c. 36 000 pop), Sint Maarten (c. 37 000 pop).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 34 km NW of The Valley, Anguilla.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.2938° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.436° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km NW of The Valley, Anguilla Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-06-06 17:14:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-26 22:41:28 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 ,pr,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 0.812 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.26 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208 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 us70003wi7 Id of event.
Event Code 70003wi7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019157014,us70003wi7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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