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Minor earthquake: M3.72 quake has struck near Road Town in British Virgin Islands


Earthquake location 19.1673S, -64.4675WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.72 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 84 kilometers (52 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Global time and date of event 01/05/20 / 2020-05-01 05:59:39 / May 1, 2020 @ 5:59 am UTC/GMT. Event id: pr2020122005. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2020122005. Exact location, longitude -64.4675° West, latitude 19.1673° North, depth = 31 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 01:59:39 / 1:59 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola. Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 84 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.72 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.4675° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.1673° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84km 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 2020-05-01 05:59:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-01 06:21:06 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 213 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.1847 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 328 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 pr2020122005 Id of event.
Event Code 2020122005 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2020122005, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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