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Minor earthquake, 3.19 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.6271S, -64.5485WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 134 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (83 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/10/19 / 2019-10-10 22:54:23 / October 10, 2019 @ 10:54 pm. Event id: pr2019283015. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019283015. The epicenter was at a depth of 11 km (7 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:54:23 / 6:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -64.5485° West, 19.6271° North, depth 11 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-five 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 respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 134 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.19 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5485° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6271° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 134km 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 2019-10-10 22:54:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-11 00:22:15 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 157 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.0233 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 237 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 pr2019283015 Id of event.
Event Code 2019283015 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019283015, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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