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Minor earthquake: M3.09 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on April 10, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.2425S, -63.9245WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, longitude -63.9245 West, latitude 18.2425 North, depth = 106 km. Id of earthquake: pr2019100000. Event ids that are associated: pr2019100000. The temblor was detected at 20:23:13 / 8:23 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 106 km (66 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 10/04/19 / 2019-04-10 00:23:13 / April 10, 2019 @ 12:23 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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: 75 km ESE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.9245° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.2425° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 106 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75km ESE 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 2019-04-10 00:23:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-10 05:56:58 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 147 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 3 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.1096 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 351 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 pr2019100000 Id of event.
Event Code 2019100000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019100000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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