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Minor earthquake: M2.96 quake has struck near Virgin Islands region

Posted by admin on July 10, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9018S, -64.4545WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, Virgin Islands region kilometers (0 miles) from Virgin Islands region. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/07/19 / 2019-07-10 18:06:32 / July 10, 2019 @ 6:06 pm. Event id: pr2019191003. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019191003. The epicenter was at a depth of 73 km (45 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -64.4545 West, latitude 18.9018 North, depth = 73 km. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:06:32 / 6:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 54 km (33 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cruz Bay, Road Town, Tortola.

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

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.4545° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9018° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 73 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Virgin Islands region Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-07-10 18:06:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-07-10 18:27:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 135 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 1.5878 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 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 pr2019191003 Id of event.
Event Code 2019191003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019191003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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