Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Friday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/12/16 / 2016-12-23 14:54:25 / December 23, 2016 @ 2:54 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.7841 West, latitude 19.1194 North, depth = 55 km. Id of earthquake: pr16358005. Event ids that are associated: pr16358005. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 55 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:54:25 / 10:54 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 78 km (48 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 79 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.7841° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1194° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	55 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	79km 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	2016-12-23 14:54:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-23 16:49:39	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	158	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	0.9342479	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.25 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	pr16358005	Id of event.
Event Code	16358005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16358005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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