Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 107 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 107 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (66 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/10/15 / 2015-10-29 14:19:26 / October 29, 2015 @ 2:19 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15302010. Unique identifier: pr15302010. The temblor was picked up at 10:19:26 / 10:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.7395 West, latitude 19.3766 North, depth = 24 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 24 km (15 miles).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-five 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.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.7395° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3766° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	107km 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	2015-10-29 14:19:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-10-29 19:19:23	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	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.03845247	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	324	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	pr15302010	Id of event.
Event Code	15302010	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr15302010,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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