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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.3495S, -64.7559WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16162002. Unique identifier: pr16162002. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/06/16 / 2016-06-10 06:01:05 / June 10, 2016 @ 6:01 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 02:01:05 / 2:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 112 km, -64.7559° West, 18.3495° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 112 km (70 miles).

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabel Segunda, Saint Croix, Culebra (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 16 km WSW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.7559° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3495° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 112 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km WSW 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 2016-06-10 06:01:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-10 08:07:43 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 0.02245788 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 309.6 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 pr16162002 Id of event.
Event Code 16162002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16162002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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