Minor earthquake, 3.58 mag has occurred near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.58 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, longitude -64.76 West, latitude 19.0133 North, depth = 45 km. The 3.58-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:23:40 / 10:23 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 45 km (28 miles). Global time and date of event 22/11/17 / 2017-11-22 02:23:40 / November 22, 2017 @ 2:23 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2017326000. Unique identifier: pr2017326000.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter 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).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 67 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.58 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.76° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0133° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	67km NNW 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	2017-11-22 02:23:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-22 09:42:46	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	197	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	6	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.6582	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	340	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	pr2017326000	Id of event.
Event Code	2017326000	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2017326000,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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