Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. All ids that are associated to the event: pr17110001. Unique identifier: pr17110001. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.5412 West, latitude 19.0737 North, depth = 35 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/04/17 / 2017-04-20 05:02:08 / April 20, 2017 @ 5:02 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). The temblor was picked up at 01:02:08 / 1:02 am (local time epicenter).

Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifty-nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and six and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 73 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.5412° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0737° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	73km 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 05:02:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-04-20 07:34:25	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	158	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	1.03665584	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	309.6	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	pr17110001	Id of event.
Event Code	17110001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr17110001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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