Minor earthquake: M2.85 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/08/19 / 2019-08-03 10:06:11 / August 3, 2019 @ 10:06 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -64.7856 West, latitude 18.6176 North, depth = 83 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019215007. Id of event: pr2019215007. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:06:11 / 6:06 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 83 km (52 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close 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). The epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay (min 5000 pop).

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 seven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.85 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.7856° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6176° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	83 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	28km NW 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	2019-08-03 10:06:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-08-03 12:39:10	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	125	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.1647	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	336	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	pr2019215007	Id of event.
Event Code	2019215007	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019215007,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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