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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on July 18, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.854S, -64.2023WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/07/15 / 2015-07-18 00:31:32 / July 18, 2015 @ 12:31 am. Unique identifier: pr15199007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15199007. Exact location of event, longitude -64.2023 West, latitude 18.854 North, depth = 20 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:31:32 / 8:31 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 20 km (12 miles).

The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop).

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

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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: 65 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.2023° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.854° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km NE 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 2015-07-18 00:31:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-18 11:02:59 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 158 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.40783514 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 324 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 pr15199007 Id of event.
Event Code 15199007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15199007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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