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

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Tuesday. Exact location of event, longitude -64.0244 West, latitude 18.67 North, depth = 90 km. The temblor was detected at 20:53:05 / 8:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/08/15 / 2015-08-26 00:53:05 / August 26, 2015 @ 12:53 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 90 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr15238001. Event ids that are associated: pr15238001.

Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

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

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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: 68 km ENE 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	-64.0244° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.67° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	90 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	68km ENE 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	2015-08-26 00:53:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-08-26 02:59:45	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	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	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3997503	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	345.6	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	pr15238001	Id of event.
Event Code	15238001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15238001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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