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Minor earthquake 3.1 mag, 141 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on July 23, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4232S, -63.7869WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 141 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (88 miles) on Saturday. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:00:11 / 10:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -63.7869 West, latitude 19.4232 North, depth = 103 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 103 km (64 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr16205007. Unique identifier: pr16205007. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/07/16 / 2016-07-23 14:00:11 / July 23, 2016 @ 2:00 pm.

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

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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: 141 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. 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 -63.7869° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4232° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 103 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 141km NE 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 2016-07-23 14:00:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-07-23 17:06:35 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.43101625 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 331.2 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 pr16205007 Id of event.
Event Code 16205007 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16205007, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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