Minor earthquake, 3 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The epicenter was at a depth of 12 km (7 miles). The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:21:05 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr16246005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16246005. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/09/16 / 2016-09-02 22:21:05 / September 2, 2016 @ 10:21 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -64.5992 West, latitude 18.3873 North, depth = 12 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 6 km (4 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 5 km (3 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saint Croix, Culebra, Charlotte Amalie.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 3 km SSE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.5992° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.3873° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3km SSE 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	2016-09-02 22:21:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-09-02 23:12:57	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	140	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.03323767	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	223.2	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	pr16246005	Id of event.
Event Code	16246005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16246005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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