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Minor earthquake, 3.32 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.4646S, -64.676WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.32 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 116 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (72 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38 km (24 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -64.676° West, 19.4646° North, depth 38 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/11/19 / 2019-11-27 02:09:45 / November 27, 2019 @ 2:09 am. The 3.32-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:09:45 / 10:09 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pr2019331002. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2019331002.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.32 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.676° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4646° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 116km 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 2019-11-27 02:09:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-27 02:32:12 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 170 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 1.7676 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 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 pr2019331002 Id of event.
Event Code 2019331002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2019331002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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