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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on August 19, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.6987S, -64.3927WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 112 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (70 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 89 km (55 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr15231003. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00ntbtfi, us100033ct, pr15231003. The temblor was picked up at 07:04:26 / 7:04 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/08/15 / 2015-08-19 11:04:26 / August 19, 2015 @ 11:04 am. 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 location, longitude -64.3927° West, latitude 19.6987° North, depth = 89 km.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days sixty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 112 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.3927° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6987° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112km 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 2015-08-19 11:04:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-19 11:47:53 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 354 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,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.20194585 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 284.4 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 pr15231003 Id of event.
Event Code 15231003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ntbtfi,us100033ct,pr15231003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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