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Minor earthquake, 3.25 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.2468S, -64.8501WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.25 (ml/mb) was reported 95 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (59 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 03:15:34 / 3:15 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2019271010. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019271010. Exact location of event, longitude -64.8501 West, latitude 19.2468 North, depth = 60 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 60 km (37 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/09/19 / 2019-09-28 07:15:34 / September 28, 2019 @ 7:15 am.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 95 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.25 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.8501° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2468° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95km NNW 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 2019-09-28 07:15:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-09-28 10:46:12 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 162 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.5495 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 244 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 pr2019271010 Id of event.
Event Code 2019271010 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019271010, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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