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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:23:13 / 6:23 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us60006nq7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19341050, us60006nq7. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.71 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/12/19 / 2019-12-07 22:23:13 / December 7, 2019 @ 10:23 pm. Exact location, longitude -64.3077° West, latitude 18.9446° North, depth = 45.71 km.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town. Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (40 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 66 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.3077° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.9446° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45.71 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	66km NNE 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	2019-12-07 22:23:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-12-07 22:37:39	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	341	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	1.66	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	212	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	us60006nq7	Id of event.
Event Code	60006nq7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt19341050,us60006nq7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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