Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 76 kilometers (47 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 45 km (28 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/07/16 / 2016-07-23 21:47:45 / July 23, 2016 @ 9:47 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.041 West, latitude 18.8412 North, depth = 45 km. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:47:45 / 5:47 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr16205009. Event ids that are associated: pr16205009.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 76 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.041° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8412° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	76km 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 21:47:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-07-23 22:27:43	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	211	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	19	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.68990614	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.27 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	327.6	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	pr16205009	Id of event.
Event Code	16205009	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16205009,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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