Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/09/15 / 2015-09-11 04:40:47 / September 11, 2015 @ 4:40 am. Id of earthquake: pr15254001. Event ids that are associated: pr15254001. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.4704 West, latitude 18.739 North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:40:47 / 12:40 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 36 km (23 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 38 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.4704° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.739° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38km NNE 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	2015-09-11 04:40:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-11 05:23:15	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.13115403	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	219.6	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	pr15254001	Id of event.
Event Code	15254001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15254001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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