Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 91 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (57 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -64.5272° West, 19.2367° North, depth 24 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/04/17 / 2017-04-14 23:07:21 / April 14, 2017 @ 11:07 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17104053. Id of event: pr17104053. The temblor was picked up at 19:07:21 / 7:07 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days seventy-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. 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: 91 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.5272° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.2367° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	91km N 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	2017-04-14 23:07:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-14 23:44:13	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	188	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.92975632	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	306	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	pr17104053	Id of event.
Event Code	17104053	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17104053,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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