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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.9727S, -64.3704WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Unique identifier: pr15239006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15239006. Exact location, longitude -64.3704° West, latitude 18.9727° North, depth = 68 km. The temblor was reported at 11:47:29 / 11:47 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 68 km (42 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/08/15 / 2015-08-27 15:47:29 / August 27, 2015 @ 3:47 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola. Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days ninety-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 66 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.3704° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9727° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 68 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km NNE 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 2015-08-27 15:47:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-27 16:11:53 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 168 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.48059868 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 288 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 pr15239006 Id of event.
Event Code 15239006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15239006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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