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Minor earthquake, 3.26 mag has occurred near Virgin Islands region


Earthquake location 19.0296S, -64.377WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.26 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, Virgin Islands region kilometers (0 miles) from Virgin Islands region. Exact location of event, depth 99 km, -64.377° West, 19.0296° North. The temblor was detected at 20:57:51 / 8:57 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2017243003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2017243003. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/08/17 / 2017-08-31 20:57:51 / August 31, 2017 @ 8:57 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 99 km (62 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-one 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: Virgin Islands region. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.26 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.377° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0296° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 99 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Virgin Islands region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-08-31 20:57:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-01 01:06:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 164 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 1.5004 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 327 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 pr2017243003 Id of event.
Event Code 2017243003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017243003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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