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Minor earthquake, 3.45 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 18.7738S, -64.1265WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/07/18 / 2018-07-20 02:49:26 / July 20, 2018 @ 2:49 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018201003. Unique identifier: pr2018201003. The temblor was reported at 22:49:26 / 10:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -64.1265° West, 18.7738° North, depth 37 km.

The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). 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).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. 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: 65 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.45 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.1265° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7738° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 65km NE 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 2018-07-20 02:49:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-20 05:02:01 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 183 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.8345 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 343 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 pr2018201003 Id of event.
Event Code 2018201003 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018201003, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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