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Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 31 km ENE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on October 17, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.5714S, -64.3688WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.9 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/10/17 / 2017-10-05 21:56:34 / October 5, 2017 @ 9:56 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000at35. Id of event: us1000at35. The temblor was detected at 17:56:34 / 5:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -64.3688 West, latitude 18.5714 North, depth = 39.9 km.

Event epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 31 km ENE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.3688° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.5714° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39.9 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 31km ENE 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 2017-10-05 21:56:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-10-17 01:09:23 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 222 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.753 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.71 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 210 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000at35 Id of event.
Event Code 1000at35 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000at35, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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