Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near The Valley in Anguilla

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 106 km NW of The Valley, Anguilla (66 miles). The temblor was detected at 03:46:25 / 3:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -63.6318 West, latitude 19.0079 North, depth = 129 km. Id of earthquake: pr16163001. Event ids that are associated: pr16163001. Global time and date of event 11/06/16 / 2016-06-11 07:46:25 / June 11, 2016 @ 7:46 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 129 km (80 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 106 km NW of The Valley, Anguilla. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-63.6318° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0079° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	129 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	106km 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	2016-06-11 07:46:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-11 12:10:43	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	148	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.27201444	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.18 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	pr16163001	Id of event.
Event Code	16163001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16163001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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