Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17008002. Id of event: pr17008002. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:53:18 / 5:53 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 08/01/17 / 2017-01-08 21:53:18 / January 8, 2017 @ 9:53 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Exact location, longitude -64.3523° West, latitude 18.8882° North, depth = 24 km.

Event epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 77 km (48 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). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 59 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.3523° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8882° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	59km NNE 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	2017-01-08 21:53:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-08 22:27:30	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	222	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.05372383	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	295.2	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	pr17008002	Id of event.
Event Code	17008002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17008002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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