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Minor earthquake: M3.4 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on December 15, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.2115S, -64.6825WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 88 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (55 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/12/18 / 2018-12-15 09:48:55 / December 15, 2018 @ 9:48 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018349011. Unique identifier: pr2018349011. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.6825 West, latitude 19.2115 North, depth = 29 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:48:55 / 5:48 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 88 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.6825° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2115° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km 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 2018-12-15 09:48:55 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-15 12:10:21 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 178 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.6665 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 341 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 pr2018349011 Id of event.
Event Code 2018349011 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018349011, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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