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Minor earthquake: M3.12 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on September 2, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.2161S, -63.8985WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.12 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 116 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (72 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/09/19 / 2019-09-02 02:12:29 / September 2, 2019 @ 2:12 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17 km (11 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019245006. Unique identifier: pr2019245006. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -63.8985 West, latitude 19.2161 North, depth = 17 km. The 3.12-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:12:29 / 10:12 pm (local time epicenter).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 116 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.12 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.8985° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2161° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 116km NE 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 2019-09-02 02:12:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-02 05:50:36 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 150 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.4274 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 254 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 pr2019245006 Id of event.
Event Code 2019245006 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019245006, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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