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Light earthquake, 4.96 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on October 6, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.6966S, -64.5655WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.96 (ml/mb) was reported 118 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (73 miles) on Sunday. The 4.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:10:44 / 11:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -64.5655 West, latitude 19.6966 North, depth = 15 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: pr2019279014. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19279050, us70005rbn, pr2019279014. Global time and date of event 06/10/19 / 2019-10-06 15:10:44 / October 6, 2019 @ 3:10 pm UTC/GMT.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 118 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.96 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5655° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.6966° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 118km 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 15:10:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-06 16:56:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 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 379 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 ,pt,us,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 29 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.0566 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.44 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 228 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 pr2019279014 Id of event.
Event Code 2019279014 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19279050,us70005rbn,pr2019279014, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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