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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on July 29, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.6247S, -64.6912WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 133 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (83 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 19 km (12 miles). Event id: pr15210005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15210005. The temblor was reported at 09:28:23 / 9:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -64.6912 West, latitude 19.6247 North, depth = 19 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/07/15 / 2015-07-29 13:28:23 / July 29, 2015 @ 1:28 pm.

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 133 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.6912° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6247° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 133km 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 2015-07-29 13:28:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-07-29 13:54:16 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 1.15972503 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 306 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 pr15210005 Id of event.
Event Code 15210005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15210005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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