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Minor earthquake, 3.25 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Id of earthquake: pr2018266003. Event ids that are associated: pr2018266003. Exact location, longitude -64.3858° West, latitude 18.6528° North, depth = 47 km. The temblor was detected at 23:14:15 / 11:14 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/09/18 / 2018-09-23 03:14:15 / September 23, 2018 @ 3:14 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 35 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.25 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.3858° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6528° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	47 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km 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	2018-09-23 03:14:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-23 09:56:49	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	162	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	7	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.5495	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.42 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	347	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	pr2018266003	Id of event.
Event Code	2018266003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018266003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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