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

A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 90 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (56 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/12/16 / 2016-12-24 08:42:40 / December 24, 2016 @ 8:42 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr16359000. Unique identifier: pr16359000. The temblor was picked up at 04:42:40 / 4:42 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -64.7731° West, latitude 19.2217° North, depth = 24 km.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 90 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.7731° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2217° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	90km N 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	2016-12-24 08:42:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-12-27 03:54:36	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	8	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.028571	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	320.4	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	pr16359000	Id of event.
Event Code	16359000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr16359000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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