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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near The Valley in Anguilla

Posted by admin on May 2, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.6732S, -63.5574WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 73 kilometers (45 miles) from The Valley in Anguilla on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 31 km (19 miles). Exact location of event, depth 31 km, -63.5574° West, 18.6732° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16123001. Id of event: pr16123001. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/05/16 / 2016-05-02 06:56:19 / May 2, 2016 @ 6:56 am UTC/GMT. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:56:19 / 2:56 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, Anguilla (c. 13 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from The Valley (c. 2 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was The Valley.

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

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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: 73 km NW of The Valley, Anguilla. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.5574° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6732° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km NW 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 2016-05-02 06:56:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-02 07:48:09 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 138 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 1.20014922 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 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 pr16123001 Id of event.
Event Code 16123001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16123001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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