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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.0935S, -64.6415WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/01/16 / 2016-01-07 02:50:23 / January 7, 2016 @ 2:50 am. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:50:23 / 10:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 57 km, -64.6415° West, 19.0935° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16007005. Unique identifier: pr16007005.

Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days sixty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 74 km N 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 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.6415° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0935° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 74km 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 2016-01-07 02:50:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-07 05:59:57 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 138 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 0.67373646 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 306 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 pr16007005 Id of event.
Event Code 16007005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16007005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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