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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.138S, -64.7902WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/04/17 / 2017-04-16 04:06:39 / April 16, 2017 @ 4:06 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr17106004. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr17106004. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 38 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -64.7902° West, latitude 19.138° North, depth = 38 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:06:39 / 12:06 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 80 km (50 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days ninety-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-eight 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.7902° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.138° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km 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 2017-04-16 04:06:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-16 04:23:24 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.80219555 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 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 pr17106004 Id of event.
Event Code 17106004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17106004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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