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Minor earthquake, 3.29 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.7648S, -64.2215WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, depth 43 km, -64.2215° West, 18.7648° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr2018295004. Event ids that are associated: pr2018295004. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/10/18 / 2018-10-22 03:40:18 / October 22, 2018 @ 3:40 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 23:40:18 / 11:40 pm (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cruz Bay, Road Town, Tortola. Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 56 km NE 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 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.2215° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7648° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km NE 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 2018-10-22 03:40:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-22 07:42:04 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 167 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.7424 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 346 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 pr2018295004 Id of event.
Event Code 2018295004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018295004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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