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Minor earthquake, 3.09 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.0111S, -64.5196WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Unique identifier: pr2019038001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019038001. Exact location, longitude -64.5196° West, latitude 19.0111° North, depth = 56 km. Global time and date of event 07/02/19 / 2019-02-07 00:48:43 / February 7, 2019 @ 12:48 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 20:48:43 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 56 km (35 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 66 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5196° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0111° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km 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 2019-02-07 00:48:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-07 06:50:10 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 147 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.5881 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 347 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 pr2019038001 Id of event.
Event Code 2019038001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019038001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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