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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on January 26, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.4389S, -64.431WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, depth 72 km, -64.431° West, 18.4389° North. The temblor was reported at 15:41:39 / 3:41 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 72 km (45 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17026006. Id of event: pr17026006. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/01/17 / 2017-01-26 19:41:39 / January 26, 2017 @ 7:41 pm.

Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 19 km E of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.431° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.4389° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 72 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 19km E 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 2017-01-26 19:41:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-26 22:32:58 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 178 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.75368652 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 291.6 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 pr17026006 Id of event.
Event Code 17026006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17026006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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