Minor earthquake, 3.34 mag has occurred near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) strikes 88 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (55 miles) on Monday. Event id: pr2019154009. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019154009. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.5871 West, latitude 19.2156 North, depth = 45 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/06/19 / 2019-06-03 13:26:55 / June 3, 2019 @ 1:26 pm. The temblor was picked up at 09:26:55 / 9:26 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 45 km (28 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days fifty and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 88 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.34 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.5871° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2156° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	88km 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	2019-06-03 13:26:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-06-03 14:08:04	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	172	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.6566	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	335	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	pr2019154009	Id of event.
Event Code	2019154009	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019154009,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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