Minor earthquake 3.34 mag, 126 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) was reported 126 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (78 miles) on Wednesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 20/02/19 / 2019-02-20 06:02:55 / February 20, 2019 @ 6:02 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 75 km (47 miles). The temblor was picked up at 02:02:55 / 2:02 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019051003. Unique identifier: pr2019051003. Exact location of event, depth 75 km, -64.8191° West, 19.5388° North.

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

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 126 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.34 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.8191° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.5388° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	75 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	126km 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	2019-02-20 06:02:55	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-02-20 06:38:27	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	172	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.7353	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	315	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	pr2019051003	Id of event.
Event Code	2019051003	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019051003,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Minor earthquake 3.34 mag, 126 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands

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