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Minor earthquake: M2.97 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.7811S, -64.6978WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) was reported 151 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (94 miles) on Sunday. The 2.97-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:48:58 / 3:48 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 44 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/10/19 / 2019-10-06 19:48:58 / October 6, 2019 @ 7:48 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -64.6978° West, latitude 19.7811° North, depth = 44 km. Unique identifier: pr2019279021. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019279021.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days thirty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 151 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.97 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.6978° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.7811° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 151km 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 19:48:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-07 00:50:35 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 136 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 2.0217 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.24 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 316 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 pr2019279021 Id of event.
Event Code 2019279021 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019279021, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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