Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/01/17 / 2017-01-20 05:07:18 / January 20, 2017 @ 5:07 am. Id of earthquake: pr17020000. Event ids that are associated: pr17020000. Exact location of event, depth 33 km, -64.745° West, 18.274° North. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:07:18 / 1:07 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 33 km (21 miles).

Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Isabel Segunda, Saint Croix, Culebra (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.745° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.274° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	33 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20km SW 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	2017-01-20 05:07:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-20 07:07:07	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	148	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	3	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5111414	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.07 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	342	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	pr17020000	Id of event.
Event Code	17020000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17020000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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