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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on February 9, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.1046S, -64.866WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/02/18 / 2018-02-09 16:50:07 / February 9, 2018 @ 4:50 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -64.866° West, 19.1046° North, depth 46.31 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 46.31 km (29 miles). Event id: us2000czm4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt18040002, us2000czm4. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:50:07 / 12:50 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Cruz Bay, Charlotte Amalie. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 80 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.866° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1046° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 46.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 80km 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 2018-02-09 16:50:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-09 17:08:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 370 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 ,pt,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 1.336 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 149 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000czm4 Id of event.
Event Code 2000czm4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt18040002,us2000czm4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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