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


Earthquake location 19.4449S, -64.755WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 114 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (71 miles). Exact location of event, depth 66 km, -64.755° West, 19.4449° North. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:29:39 / 10:29 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66 km (41 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/04/16 / 2016-04-14 14:29:39 / April 14, 2016 @ 2:29 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16105033. Id of event: pr16105033.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 114 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.755° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4449° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 114km 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 2016-04-14 14:29:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-14 15:26:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 139 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.10313117 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 327.6 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 pr16105033 Id of event.
Event Code 16105033 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16105033, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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