Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Virgin Islands region

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, Virgin Islands region (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 08/05/17 / 2017-05-08 20:23:15 / May 8, 2017 @ 8:23 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -65.0413° West, 19.5938° North, depth 14 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:23:15 / 8:23 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2017128006. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017128006. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14 km (9 miles).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Virgin Islands region. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-65.0413° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5938° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	Virgin Islands region	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-05-08 20:23:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-05-17 23:36:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.3087	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.08 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	285	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	pr2017128006	Id of event.
Event Code	2017128006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017128006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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