Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 19:22:11 / 7:22 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr17030005. Unique identifier: pr17030005. Exact location of event, longitude -64.4125 West, latitude 18.8812 North, depth = 45 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/01/17 / 2017-01-30 23:22:11 / January 30, 2017 @ 11:22 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 53 km (33 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 73 km (45 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).

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 55 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.4125° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8812° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	55km 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	2017-01-30 23:22:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-01-31 05:20:06	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	168	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	1.00162154	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.1 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	345.6	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	pr17030005	Id of event.
Event Code	17030005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17030005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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