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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on October 6, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.697S, -64.604WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 141 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (88 miles) on Sunday. Id of earthquake: pt19279050. Event ids that are associated: pt19279050. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/10/19 / 2019-10-06 15:10:41 / October 6, 2019 @ 3:10 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was reported at 11:10:41 / 11:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -64.604° West, latitude 19.697° North, depth = 10 km.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 141 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.604° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.697° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 141km 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 2019-10-06 15:10:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-06 15:15:39 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 369 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pt The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pt19279050 Id of event.
Event Code 19279050 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19279050, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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