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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.9671S, -64.0279WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 87 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (54 miles). Id of earthquake: pr15200005. Event ids that are associated: pr15200005. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/07/15 / 2015-07-19 06:52:17 / July 19, 2015 @ 6:52 am UTC/GMT. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:52:17 / 2:52 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 47 km (29 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.0279 West, latitude 18.9671 North, depth = 47 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 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: 87 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.0279° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9671° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87km NE 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 2015-07-19 06:52:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-19 07:16:07 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 158 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.59198977 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 313.2 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 pr15200005 Id of event.
Event Code 15200005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15200005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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