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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on July 16, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.5599S, -64.552WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 126 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (78 miles). Unique identifier: pr15197013. Ids that are associated to the event: at00nrlczf, pr15197013. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:38:02 / 1:38 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -64.552° West, 19.5599° North, depth 31 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Road Town in British Virgin Islands (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/07/15 / 2015-07-16 17:38:02 / July 16, 2015 @ 5:38 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-nine 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 126 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 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.552° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5599° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 126km 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 2015-07-16 17:38:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-16 17:43:19 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 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 259 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 ,at,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.84800963 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 129.6 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 pr15197013 Id of event.
Event Code 15197013 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00nrlczf,pr15197013, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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