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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 66 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.9811S, -64.4141WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The temblor was detected at 23:27:59 / 11:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 28/08/15 / 2015-08-28 03:27:59 / August 28, 2015 @ 3:27 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 65 km (40 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15240002. Unique identifier: pr15240002. Exact location of event, depth 65 km, -64.4141° West, 18.9811° North.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (39 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop).

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days thirty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.4141° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9811° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 65 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 2015-08-28 03:27:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-28 09:16:58 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.48688688 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 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 pr15240002 Id of event.
Event Code 15240002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15240002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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