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Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 83 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.1506S, -64.7792WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Wednesday. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:58:46 / 11:58 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16055003. Id of event: pr16055003. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52 km (32 miles). Exact location, longitude -64.7792° West, latitude 19.1506° North, depth = 52 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/02/16 / 2016-02-24 15:58:46 / February 24, 2016 @ 3:58 pm.

Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). The epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days six hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 83 km NNW 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 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.7792° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1506° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km NNW 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 2016-02-24 15:58:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-24 16:20:17 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 178 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.74560169 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 277.2 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 pr16055003 Id of event.
Event Code 16055003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16055003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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