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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.127S, -64.7125WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:01:15 / 5:01 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/06/15 / 2015-06-29 09:01:15 / June 29, 2015 @ 9:01 am. Exact location of event, longitude -64.7125 West, latitude 19.127 North, depth = 38 km. Id of earthquake: pr15180003. Event ids that are associated: pr15180003.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 77 km (48 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 79 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.7125° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.127° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km N 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 2015-06-29 09:01:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-29 12:41:25 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 138 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 0.69709266 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.18 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 262.8 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 pr15180003 Id of event.
Event Code 15180003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15180003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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