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Minor earthquake, 3.23 mag strikes near The Valley in Anguilla


Earthquake location 19.2331S, -63.623WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 127 km NNW of The Valley, Anguilla (79 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/01/19 / 2019-01-13 08:20:58 / January 13, 2019 @ 8:20 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 93 km (58 miles). Id of earthquake: pr2019013007. Event ids that are associated: pr2019013007. Exact location of earthquake, -63.623° West, 19.2331° North, depth 93 km. The temblor was detected at 04:20:58 / 4:20 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 127 km NNW of The Valley, Anguilla.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.23 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.623° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2331° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 93 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 127km NNW of The Valley, Anguilla Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-13 08:20:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-13 12:05:09 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 161 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.4788 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.35 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 336 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 pr2019013007 Id of event.
Event Code 2019013007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019013007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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