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

Posted by admin on December 16, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9314S, -64.8506WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/12/16 / 2016-12-16 14:36:14 / December 16, 2016 @ 2:36 pm. The temblor was detected at 10:36:14 / 10:36 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 45 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16351004. Id of event: pr16351004. Exact location, longitude -64.8506° West, latitude 18.9314° North, depth = 45 km.

Close 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 Cruz Bay, Charlotte Amalie, Road Town. Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-five 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 62 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8506° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9314° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km 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 2016-12-16 14:36:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-16 16:00:45 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 0.74200842 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 334.8 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 pr16351004 Id of event.
Event Code 16351004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr16351004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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