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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on June 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1023S, -64.8441WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 28 km (17 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.8441 West, latitude 19.1023 North, depth = 28 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/06/16 / 2016-06-30 07:20:41 / June 30, 2016 @ 7:20 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16182024. Id of event: pr16182024. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:20:41 / 3:20 am (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola. Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days seven hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 79 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8441° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1023° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79km NNW 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 2016-06-30 07:20:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-30 15:38:20 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 178 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.71416065 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 266.4 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 pr16182024 Id of event.
Event Code 16182024 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16182024, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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