Minor earthquake: M3.43 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.43 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/12/18 / 2018-12-20 00:44:01 / December 20, 2018 @ 12:44 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 58 km (36 miles). Unique identifier: pr2018354001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018354001. The temblor was detected at 20:44:01 / 8:44 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 58 km, -64.226° West, 18.4481° North.

Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town. Close 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 two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 41 km E of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.43 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.226° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.4481° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km E 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	2018-12-20 00:44:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-12-20 04:27:34	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	181	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	1.6514	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	349	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	pr2018354001	Id of event.
Event Code	2018354001	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2018354001,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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