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Minor earthquake: M3.36 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.3178S, -63.8093WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 131 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (81 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 57 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/02/20 / 2020-02-26 00:00:54 / February 26, 2020 @ 12:00 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -63.8093 West, latitude 19.3178 North, depth = 57 km. Unique identifier: pr2020057000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2020057000. The temblor was detected at 20:00:54 / 8:00 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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: 131 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.36 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.8093° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3178° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 131km NE 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 2020-02-26 00:00:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-26 00:31:33 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 174 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 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.4648 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 250 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 pr2020057000 Id of event.
Event Code 2020057000 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020057000, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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