Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 63 km (39 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/01/16 / 2016-01-06 07:15:11 / January 6, 2016 @ 7:15 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:15:11 / 3:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -64.7135 West, latitude 19.024 North, depth = 63 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16006021. Unique identifier: pr16006021.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town. The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 67 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.7135° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.024° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	67km 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	2016-01-06 07:15:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-01-06 11:44:54	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	168	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7051775	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	320.4	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	pr16006021	Id of event.
Event Code	16006021	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16006021,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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