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Minor earthquake: M3 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.2889S, -64.5596WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18 km (11 miles). Global time and date of event 23/12/16 / 2016-12-23 01:37:35 / December 23, 2016 @ 1:37 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 21:37:35 / 9:37 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr16358000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16358000. Exact location of earthquake, -64.5596° West, 18.2889° North, depth 18 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Saint Croix, Charlotte Amalie (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). The epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 15 km SSE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5596° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2889° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15km SSE 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 2016-12-23 01:37:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-23 03:49:25 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 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.56773526 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 288 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 pr16358000 Id of event.
Event Code 16358000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16358000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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