Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 132 km (82 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018145002. Id of event: pr2018145002. Exact location of event, longitude -64.5858 West, latitude 19.1441 North, depth = 132 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/05/18 / 2018-05-25 06:29:37 / May 25, 2018 @ 6:29 am. The temblor was detected at 02:29:37 / 2:29 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 80 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.5858° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.1441° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	132 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	80km 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	2018-05-25 06:29:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-25 08:05:31	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	168	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	1.6122	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	344	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	pr2018145002	Id of event.
Event Code	2018145002	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018145002,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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