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Minor earthquake 3.95 mag, 101 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.4576S, -63.9101WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.95 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 101 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (63 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -63.9101 West, latitude 19.4576 North, depth = 35 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/06/17 / 2017-06-04 00:06:00 / June 4, 2017 @ 12:06 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 20:06:00 / 8:06 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2017155001. Event ids that are associated: pr2017155001, us20009kjj.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-seven 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 101 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.95 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.9101° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4576° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101km 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 2017-06-04 00:06:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-05 02:28:17 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 240 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.7906 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 323 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 pr2017155001 Id of event.
Event Code 2017155001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017155001,us20009kjj, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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