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Minor earthquake, 3.36 mag has occurred near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) strikes 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude -64.5931 West, latitude 19.0008 North, depth = 37 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018323007. Id of event: pr2018323007. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/11/18 / 2018-11-19 05:57:12 / November 19, 2018 @ 5:57 am. The 3.36-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:57:12 / 1:57 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (39 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 64 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.36 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.5931° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.0008° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	64km N 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	2018-11-19 05:57:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-19 09:13:12	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	174	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	1.5213	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	337	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	pr2018323007	Id of event.
Event Code	2018323007	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018323007,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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