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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on April 11, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.2747S, -64.6523WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: pt18101050, us2000dxub. Unique identifier: us2000dxub. Exact location of event, longitude -64.6523 West, latitude 19.2747 North, depth = 32.59 km. The temblor was reported at 21:00:24 / 9:00 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/04/18 / 2018-04-11 01:00:24 / April 11, 2018 @ 1:00 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 32.59 km (20 miles).

Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

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

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 95 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 -64.6523° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2747° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.59 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95km 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 01:00:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-04-11 01:16:49 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 1.598 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 us2000dxub Id of event.
Event Code 2000dxub An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt18101050,us2000dxub, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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