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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on August 8, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4995S, -64.6043WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 119 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (74 miles) on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 29 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15220003. Unique identifier: pr15220003. The temblor was reported at 02:46:40 / 2:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -64.6043° West, latitude 19.4995° North, depth = 29 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/08/15 / 2015-08-08 06:46:40 / August 8, 2015 @ 6:46 am.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 119 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.6043° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4995° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 119km 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 2015-08-08 06:46:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-08 08:36:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 168 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 7 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.02048616 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 302.4 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 pr15220003 Id of event.
Event Code 15220003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15220003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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