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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on January 22, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1084S, -64.4977WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The temblor was picked up at 08:46:01 / 8:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.4977 West, latitude 19.1084 North, depth = 36.87 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 36.87 km (23 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/01/17 / 2017-01-22 12:46:01 / January 22, 2017 @ 12:46 pm. Event id: us10007utt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007utt.

Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola. Event epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 77 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.4977° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1084° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km 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 2017-01-22 12:46:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-22 13:03:11 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 us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.09 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10007utt Id of event.
Event Code 10007utt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007utt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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