Minor earthquake: M3.36 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019181005. Unique identifier: pr2019181005. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/06/19 / 2019-06-30 03:10:37 / June 30, 2019 @ 3:10 am. The temblor was reported at 23:10:37 / 11:10 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -64.6936 West, latitude 18.957 North, depth = 34 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 58 km (36 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days fifty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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: 60 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.36 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.6936° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.957° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	60km 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	2019-06-30 03:10:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-06-30 10:08:27	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	174	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	13	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.4137	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	335	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	pr2019181005	Id of event.
Event Code	2019181005	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pr2019181005,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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