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Minor earthquake 3.44 mag, 57 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.909S, -64.7408WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) was reported 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/04/18 / 2018-04-07 06:09:42 / April 7, 2018 @ 6:09 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 30 km (19 miles). Exact location, longitude -64.7408° West, latitude 18.909° North, depth = 30 km. The temblor was reported at 02:09:42 / 2:09 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2018097010. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018097010, us2000dvyl.

Epicenter of the event was 54 km (34 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

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

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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. 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: 57 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.44 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.7408° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.909° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km 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 2018-04-07 06:09:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-07 08:44:34 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 182 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.3475 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 335 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 pr2018097010 Id of event.
Event Code 2018097010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018097010,us2000dvyl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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