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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 21 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, -64.671° West, 18.6082° North, depth 74 km. The temblor was reported at 09:05:18 / 9:05 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/03/16 / 2016-03-19 13:05:18 / March 19, 2016 @ 1:05 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 74 km (46 miles). Event id: pr16079000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16079000.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay. Epicenter of the event was 20 km (13 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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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 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: 21 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.671° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6082° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	74 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km NNW 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	2016-03-19 13:05:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-03-19 13:24:57	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	10	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3701059	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	280.8	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	pr16079000	Id of event.
Event Code	16079000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16079000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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