Light earthquake: M4.6 quake strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (mg/mb) has striked on Friday, 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The temblor was reported at 08:18:58 / 8:18 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 40 km (25 miles). Global time of event 20/03/15 / 2015-03-20 12:18:58 / March 20, 2015 @ 12:18 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Road Town in British Virgin Islands, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude -64.3319 West, latitude 19.114 North, depth 40 km, unique identifier, at00nlifjm.

Close countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). The epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.3319° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.114° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	40 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	82km NNE 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	2015-03-20 12:18:58	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-03-20 12:22:05	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	1	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	326	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.42023646	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	187.2	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	at00nlifjm	Id of event.
Event Code	00nlifjm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00nlifjm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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