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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.429S, -64.596WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 112 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (70 miles) on Sunday. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:02:16 / 9:02 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -64.596 West, latitude 19.429 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19280050. Id of event: pt19280050. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/10/19 / 2019-10-07 01:02:16 / October 7, 2019 @ 1:02 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days four hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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: 112 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.596° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.429° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km 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 2019-10-07 01:02:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-07 01:07:52 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 271 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pt The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pt19280050 Id of event.
Event Code 19280050 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19280050, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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