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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.4285S, -64.6755WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 112 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (70 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -64.6755° West, 19.4285° North, depth 18.39 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Road Town in British Virgin Islands (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.39 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/08/15 / 2015-08-19 11:04:31 / August 19, 2015 @ 11:04 am UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:04:31 / 7:04 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ntbtfi, us100033ct. Id of event: us100033ct.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days one hundred and eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 112 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.6755° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4285° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km 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 2015-08-19 11:04:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-19 11:18:07 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 1 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 340 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.767 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 58 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100033ct Id of event.
Event Code 100033ct An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ntbtfi,us100033ct, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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