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


Earthquake location 19.6585S, -64.5084WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 137 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (85 miles) on Friday. Global time and date of event 31/07/15 / 2015-07-31 12:16:01 / July 31, 2015 @ 12:16 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr15212013. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15212013. Exact location of event, longitude -64.5084 West, latitude 19.6585 North, depth = 53 km. The temblor was reported at 08:16:01 / 8:16 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days sixty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 137 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5084° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6585° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 137km 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 2015-07-31 12:16:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-31 17:54:52 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.16601324 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 320.4 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 pr15212013 Id of event.
Event Code 15212013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15212013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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