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Minor earthquake, 3.56 mag has occurred near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.0268S, -64.7053WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.56 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Event id: pr2019051000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019051000. The temblor was picked up at 20:15:27 / 8:15 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/02/19 / 2019-02-20 00:15:27 / February 20, 2019 @ 12:15 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.7053 West, latitude 19.0268 North, depth = 94 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 94 km (58 miles).

Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop).

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 68 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.56 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.7053° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0268° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 68km 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 2019-02-20 00:15:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-20 03:15:14 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 195 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 1.4458 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 340 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 pr2019051000 Id of event.
Event Code 2019051000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019051000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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