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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on April 20, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.288S, -64.5381WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 96 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (60 miles) on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 02:53:55 / 2:53 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 42 km (26 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr17110002. Unique identifier: pr17110002. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.5381 West, latitude 19.288 North, depth = 42 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/04/17 / 2017-04-20 06:53:55 / April 20, 2017 @ 6:53 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and four and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 96 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5381° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.288° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 42 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96km 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 2017-04-20 06:53:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-20 07:37:06 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 129 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 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.20194585 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 316.8 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 pr17110002 Id of event.
Event Code 17110002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr17110002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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