Minor earthquake, 3.27 mag has occurred near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) was reported 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Saturday. Exact location, longitude -64.6401° West, latitude 18.8038° North, depth = 24 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 24 km (15 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/17 / 2017-07-08 23:59:13 / July 8, 2017 @ 11:59 pm. Id of earthquake: pr2017189021. Event ids that are associated: pr2017189021. The temblor was picked up at 19:59:13 / 7:59 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town. Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 42 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.27 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.6401° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8038° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42km 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	2017-07-08 23:59:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-07-09 04:33:58	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	165	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8118	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.2 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	297	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	pr2017189021	Id of event.
Event Code	2017189021	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017189021,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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