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

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 130 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:31:35 / 2:31 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/11/16 / 2016-11-19 06:31:35 / November 19, 2016 @ 6:31 am. Exact location of event, depth 130 km, -64.2667° West, 18.1907° North. Id of earthquake: pr16324004. Event ids that are associated: pr16324004.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saint Croix, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, 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 four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-one 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. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.2667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.1907° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	130 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	44km SE 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	2016-11-19 06:31:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-11-19 08:17:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	138	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.49856498	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	338.4	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	pr16324004	Id of event.
Event Code	16324004	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16324004,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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