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

Posted by admin on April 15, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0842S, -64.781WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, depth 31 km, -64.781° West, 19.0842° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/04/17 / 2017-04-15 05:33:55 / April 15, 2017 @ 5:33 am. The temblor was picked up at 01:33:55 / 1:33 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: pr17105024. Event ids that are associated: pr17105024.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola. Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

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

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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 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: 75 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.781° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0842° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km 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 2017-04-15 05:33:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-15 08:47:30 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 0.74829663 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 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 pr17105024 Id of event.
Event Code 17105024 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17105024, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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