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Minor earthquake: M3.38 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) strikes 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 19:18:35 / 7:18 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2018065014. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018065014. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/03/18 / 2018-03-06 23:18:35 / March 6, 2018 @ 11:18 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -64.3893 West, latitude 18.6146 North, depth = 43 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum 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). Event epicenter was 30 km (19 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 32 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.38 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.3893° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6146° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	43 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	32km NE 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	2018-03-06 23:18:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-03-07 04:50:35	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	176	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	4	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.5341	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.39 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	348	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	pr2018065014	Id of event.
Event Code	2018065014	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018065014,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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