Minor earthquake, 3.33 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/11/18 / 2018-11-05 21:41:00 / November 5, 2018 @ 9:41 pm. The temblor was detected at 17:41:00 / 5:41 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45 km (28 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018309006. Id of event: pr2018309006. Exact location of event, longitude -64.2905 West, latitude 18.6556 North, depth = 45 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (25 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 43 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.33 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.2905° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.6556° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	43km 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	2018-11-05 21:41:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-06 01:02:15	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	171	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	5	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.6407	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.23 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	346	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	pr2018309006	Id of event.
Event Code	2018309006	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018309006,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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