Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near The Valley in Anguilla

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 84 km WNW of The Valley, Anguilla (52 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:50:12 / 7:50 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16078004. Id of event: pr16078004. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/03/16 / 2016-03-18 11:50:12 / March 18, 2016 @ 11:50 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -63.731° West, latitude 18.6268° North, depth = 24 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every 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.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 84 km WNW of The Valley, Anguilla. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-63.731° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6268° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	84km WNW of The Valley, Anguilla	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-18 11:50:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-18 12:33:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.86597593	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	352.8	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	pr16078004	Id of event.
Event Code	16078004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16078004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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