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Minor earthquake, 3.18 mag has occurred near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on June 25, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4766S, -64.7635WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.18 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 118 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (73 miles). The 3.18-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:27:27 / 5:27 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2017175004. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2017175004. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/06/17 / 2017-06-24 09:27:27 / June 24, 2017 @ 9:27 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52 km (32 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -64.7635 West, latitude 19.4766 North, depth = 52 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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. 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: 118 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.18 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.7635° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4766° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 118km 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 2017-06-24 09:27:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-25 03:23:46 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 156 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 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.2791 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 301 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 pr2017175004 Id of event.
Event Code 2017175004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2017175004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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