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Minor earthquake, 3.29 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on December 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.6436S, -64.6978WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.29 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: pr2018352024. Event ids that are associated: pr2018352024. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/12/18 / 2018-12-18 18:06:51 / December 18, 2018 @ 6:06 pm. The 3.29-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:06:51 / 2:06 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 34 km, -64.6978° West, 18.6436° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay (min 5000 pop).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 26 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.29 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.6978° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.6436° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26km 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 2018-12-18 18:06:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-12-18 18:39:15 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 167 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 6 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.2555 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.12 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 342 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 pr2018352024 Id of event.
Event Code 2018352024 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018352024, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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