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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on March 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.7676S, -64.6306WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/03/18 / 2018-03-15 11:13:28 / March 15, 2018 @ 11:13 am. Exact location, longitude -64.6306° West, latitude 18.7676° North, depth = 10 km. Unique identifier: us1000d4n9. Ids that are associated to the event: pt18074050, us1000d4n9. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:13:28 / 7:13 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 38 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.6306° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7676° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 38km 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 2018-03-15 11:13:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-15 11:29:36 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 312 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 1.313 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us1000d4n9 Id of event.
Event Code 1000d4n9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt18074050,us1000d4n9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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