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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on June 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.8999S, -64.8349WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact location of earthquake, -64.8349° West, 18.8999° North, depth 39 km. Unique identifier: pr16181006. Ids that are associated to the event: at00o9k4b0, pr16181006. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/06/16 / 2016-06-29 23:37:48 / June 29, 2016 @ 11:37 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:37:48 / 7:37 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Cruz Bay, Charlotte Amalie (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (35 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days seven hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 58 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8349° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.8999° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km 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 2016-06-29 23:37:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-29 23:45:48 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 1 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 234 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 ,at,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 48 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.52012455 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140.4 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr16181006 Id of event.
Event Code 16181006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00o9k4b0,pr16181006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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