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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.7675 West, latitude 18.8292 North, depth = 109 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:50:11 / 1:50 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/02/17 / 2017-02-25 05:50:11 / February 25, 2017 @ 5:50 am. Event id: pr17056018. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17056018. The epicenter was at a depth of 109 km (68 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay (min 5000 pop). Close 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). Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 48 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.7675° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8292° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	109 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48km NNW 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	2017-02-25 05:50:11	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-02-25 11:35:54	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	0.71236402	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 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	pr17056018	Id of event.
Event Code	17056018	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17056018,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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