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Minor earthquake 3 mag, 96 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on June 11, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.2772S, -64.7851WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 96 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (60 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/06/16 / 2016-06-11 05:04:15 / June 11, 2016 @ 5:04 am. Unique identifier: pr16163000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16163000. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:04:15 / 1:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -64.7851 West, latitude 19.2772 North, depth = 54 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 54 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days seven hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 96 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.7851° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2772° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km 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 2016-06-11 05:04:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-11 08:04:47 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.9342479 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 316.8 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 pr16163000 Id of event.
Event Code 16163000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16163000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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