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Minor earthquake: M2.84 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on June 2, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9493S, -64.2626WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Sunday. Id of earthquake: pr2019153001. Event ids that are associated: pr2019153001. The temblor was picked up at 00:39:41 / 12:39 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/06/19 / 2019-06-02 04:39:41 / June 2, 2019 @ 4:39 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -64.2626° West, 18.9493° North, depth 56 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 56 km (35 miles).

The epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected).

There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 69 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.84 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.2626° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9493° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km NNE 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 2019-06-02 04:39:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-06-02 08:19:51 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 124 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 1.7798 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.4 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 345 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 pr2019153001 Id of event.
Event Code 2019153001 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019153001, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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