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

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 98 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (61 miles) on Saturday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/04/16 / 2016-04-16 07:46:45 / April 16, 2016 @ 7:46 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 78 km (48 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -64.4811° West, 19.3008° North, depth 78 km. The temblor was detected at 03:46:45 / 3:46 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr16107003. Unique identifier: pr16107003.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty-six 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. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 98 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	-64.4811° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3008° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	98km 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	2016-04-16 07:46:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-16 12:12:44	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.04474068	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	331.2	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	pr16107003	Id of event.
Event Code	16107003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16107003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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