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Minor earthquake: M2.9 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on August 20, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.6343S, -63.8706WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 82 km ENE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (51 miles) on Wednesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr15231009. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15231009. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/08/15 / 2015-08-19 19:46:36 / August 19, 2015 @ 7:46 pm. Exact location, longitude -63.8706° West, latitude 18.6343° North, depth = 25 km. The temblor was picked up at 15:46:36 / 3:46 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days two hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 82 km ENE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.8706° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6343° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km ENE 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 2015-08-19 19:46:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-20 02:41:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 129 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.52461613 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 352.8 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 pr15231009 Id of event.
Event Code 15231009 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15231009, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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