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Minor earthquake, 3 mag has occurred near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on August 9, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.5142S, -64.9791WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 127 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (79 miles). Id of earthquake: pr15220015. Event ids that are associated: pr15220015. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/08/15 / 2015-08-08 22:26:41 / August 8, 2015 @ 10:26 pm. The temblor was detected at 18:26:41 / 6:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -64.9791 West, latitude 19.5142 North, depth = 17 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days one hundred and nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 127 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.9791° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.5142° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 127km NNW 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 22:26:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-09 00:36:31 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 138 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.15523346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.15 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 pr15220015 Id of event.
Event Code 15220015 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr15220015, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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