Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 49 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Saturday. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:37:24 / 11:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.3141 West, latitude 18.7608 North, depth = 36 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/06/17 / 2017-06-11 03:37:24 / June 11, 2017 @ 3:37 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017162002. Id of event: pr2017162002.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town. Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 49 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.3141° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.7608° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km NE 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	2017-06-11 03:37:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-11 16:02:36	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	12	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.0693	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	321	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	pr2017162002	Id of event.
Event Code	2017162002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017162002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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