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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.3596S, -64.8121WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 106 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (66 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 64 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/06/17 / 2017-06-22 04:43:19 / June 22, 2017 @ 4:43 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -64.8121 West, latitude 19.3596 North, depth = 64 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:43:19 / 12:43 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017173003. Id of event: pr2017173003.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 106 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8121° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3596° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 64 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106km 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 2017-06-22 04:43:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-23 02:24:58 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 148 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.1525 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 304 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 pr2017173003 Id of event.
Event Code 2017173003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017173003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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