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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 58 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.9241S, -64.4466WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Monday. Exact location of event, depth 8 km, -64.4466° West, 18.9241° North. The temblor was detected at 21:18:36 / 9:18 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr16327000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16327000. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/11/16 / 2016-11-22 01:18:36 / November 22, 2016 @ 1:18 am.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every 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.

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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. 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: 58 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.4466° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9241° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km 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 2016-11-22 01:18:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-22 02:25:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 200 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.53000602 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 291.6 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 pr16327000 Id of event.
Event Code 16327000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16327000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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