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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 65 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.9249S, -64.3004WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -64.3004 West, latitude 18.9249 North, depth = 43 km. Unique identifier: pr17046006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr17046006. The temblor was detected at 08:09:57 / 8:09 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/02/17 / 2017-02-15 12:09:57 / February 15, 2017 @ 12:09 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola. Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 65 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 -64.3004° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9249° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km 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 2017-02-15 12:09:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-15 16:57:03 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.11391095 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 345.6 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 pr17046006 Id of event.
Event Code 17046006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17046006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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