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


Earthquake location 19.2134S, -64.7023WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 88 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (55 miles). Id of earthquake: pr17104038. Event ids that are associated: pr17104038. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:27:31 / 6:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.7023 West, latitude 19.2134 North, depth = 13 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/04/17 / 2017-04-14 10:27:31 / April 14, 2017 @ 10:27 am UTC/GMT.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 88 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.7023° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2134° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km 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 2017-04-14 10:27:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-14 12:42:30 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.87945066 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 313.2 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 pr17104038 Id of event.
Event Code 17104038 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17104038, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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