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


Earthquake location 19.2257S, -64.8507WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 92 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (57 miles) on Sunday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/02/17 / 2017-02-26 10:36:12 / February 26, 2017 @ 10:36 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr17057002. Unique identifier: pr17057002. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.8507 West, latitude 19.2257 North, depth = 7 km. The temblor was detected at 06:36:12 / 6:36 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. 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: 92 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8507° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2257° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 92km 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 2017-02-26 10:36:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-02-26 11:13:22 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 1.00072323 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 pr17057002 Id of event.
Event Code 17057002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17057002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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