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


Earthquake location 19.4461S, -64.5925WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 113 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (70 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -64.5925° West, 19.4461° North, depth 73 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 73 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr15211026. Event ids that are associated: pr15211026. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:20:02 / 7:20 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 30/07/15 / 2015-07-30 23:20:02 / July 30, 2015 @ 11:20 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days seventy-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 113 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5925° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4461° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 113km 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 2015-07-30 23:20:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-31 00:13:04 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.96658725 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.21 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 284.4 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 pr15211026 Id of event.
Event Code 15211026 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15211026, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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