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Minor earthquake: M3.77 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on July 1, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.0363S, -64.2763WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.77 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 77 kilometers (48 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39 km (24 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -64.2763 West, latitude 19.0363 North, depth = 39 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:02:18 / 11:02 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018182000. Unique identifier: pr2018182000. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/07/18 / 2018-07-01 03:02:18 / July 1, 2018 @ 3:02 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola. Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

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

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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: 77 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.77 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.2763° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.0363° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 39 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 77km NNE 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 2018-07-01 03:02:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-01 03:51:32 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 219 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.809 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.45 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 341 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 pr2018182000 Id of event.
Event Code 2018182000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018182000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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