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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 41 km SE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on October 11, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1812S, -64.3122WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Thursday. The temblor was reported at 23:45:46 / 11:45 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 137.39 km (85 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pt19284000, us70005tas. Unique identifier: us70005tas. Exact location of event, depth 137.39 km, -64.3122° West, 18.1812° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/10/19 / 2019-10-11 03:45:46 / October 11, 2019 @ 3:45 am UTC/GMT.

Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 68 km (42 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saint Croix, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.3122° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1812° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 137.39 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 04:04:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 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 285 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pt,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.16 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 128 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70005tas Id of event.
Event Code 70005tas An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pt19284000,us70005tas, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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