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Light earthquake 4.14 mag, 41 km SE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on October 11, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.3731S, -64.344WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.14 (ml/mb) was reported 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Thursday. Global time and date of event 11/10/19 / 2019-10-11 03:45:46 / October 11, 2019 @ 3:45 am UTC/GMT. The 4.14-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:45:46 / 11:45 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 128 km (80 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2019284000. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19284000, us70005tas, pr2019284000. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.344 West, latitude 18.3731 North, depth = 128 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saint Croix, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).

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

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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. 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: 41 km SE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.14 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.344° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.3731° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 128 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SE 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 2019-10-11 03:45:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-10-11 04:28:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 264 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.3097 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 181 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 pr2019284000 Id of event.
Event Code 2019284000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19284000,us70005tas,pr2019284000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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