Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, depth 22 km, -64.917° West, 18.9885° North. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:49:26 / 5:49 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018266010. Id of event: pr2018266010. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 22 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/09/18 / 2018-09-23 21:49:26 / September 23, 2018 @ 9:49 pm.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Charlotte Amalie, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 70 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.917° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9885° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	22 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70km NNW 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 21:49:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-09-23 22:31:24	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	188	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.2588	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	238	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	pr2018266010	Id of event.
Event Code	2018266010	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018266010,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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