Minor earthquake: M3.1 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 136 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (85 miles) on Wednesday. Unique identifier: pr15266007. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15266007. The epicenter was at a depth of 46 km (29 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -63.9739 West, latitude 19.4862 North, depth = 46 km. The temblor was reported at 03:32:27 / 3:32 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/09/15 / 2015-09-23 07:32:27 / September 23, 2015 @ 7:32 am.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days seventy-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 136 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-63.9739° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4862° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	136km 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	2015-09-23 07:32:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-23 11:38:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	148	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.82555175	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.43 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	313.2	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	pr15266007	Id of event.
Event Code	15266007	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15266007,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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