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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.6478S, -64.2454WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 141 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (88 miles). Id of earthquake: pr16334002. Event ids that are associated: pr16334002. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/11/16 / 2016-11-29 02:58:20 / November 29, 2016 @ 2:58 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.2454 West, latitude 19.6478 North, depth = 24 km. The temblor was picked up at 22:58:20 / 10:58 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24 km (15 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.2454° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6478° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 141km 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 2016-11-29 02:58:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-29 04:41:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 168 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.39957521 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 331.2 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 pr16334002 Id of event.
Event Code 16334002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16334002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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