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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on April 11, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0459S, -64.5274WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: us2000dxuf. Event ids that are associated: pt18101051, us2000dxuf. The temblor was picked up at 21:03:50 / 9:03 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/04/18 / 2018-04-11 01:03:50 / April 11, 2018 @ 1:03 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.5274 West, latitude 19.0459 North, depth = 35 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 70 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5274° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0459° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70km 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 2018-04-11 01:03:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-11 01:24:20 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 284 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 1.542 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 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 us2000dxuf Id of event.
Event Code 2000dxuf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt18101051,us2000dxuf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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