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


Earthquake location 19.2737S, -64.8848WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 98 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (61 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 13 km (8 miles). Exact location of event, depth 13 km, -64.8848° West, 19.2737° North. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:19:23 / 4:19 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr17105039. Event ids that are associated: pr17105039. Exact time and date of earthquake 15/04/17 / 2017-04-15 08:19:23 / April 15, 2017 @ 8:19 am UTC/GMT.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days eighty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 98 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8848° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2737° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 98km NNW 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 2017-04-15 08:19:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-15 14:06:01 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 0.94323105 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 309.6 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 pr17105039 Id of event.
Event Code 17105039 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17105039, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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