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


Earthquake location 19.1608S, -64.5815WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, longitude -64.5815 West, latitude 19.1608 North, depth = 47 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 47 km (29 miles). The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:28:46 / 12:28 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 06/01/16 / 2016-01-06 04:28:46 / January 6, 2016 @ 4:28 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr16006013. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16006013.

Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tortola.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 82 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 -64.5815° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1608° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 82km 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 2016-01-06 04:28:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-06 10:55:15 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.74021179 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 309.6 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 pr16006013 Id of event.
Event Code 16006013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16006013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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