Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:38:50 / 3:38 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 171 km (106 miles). Exact location, longitude -63.9748° West, latitude 18.4563° North, depth = 171 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/05/16 / 2016-05-31 19:38:50 / May 31, 2016 @ 7:38 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr16152005. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16152005.

The epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 67 km E of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-63.9748° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.4563° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	171 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	67km E 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	2016-05-31 19:38:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-31 23:25:24	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	188	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.76716125	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	345.6	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	pr16152005	Id of event.
Event Code	16152005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16152005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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