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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

Posted by admin on May 21, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.7809S, -64.5803WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Id of earthquake: us70009m5i. Event ids that are associated: us70009m5i. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:33:39 / 8:33 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/05/20 / 2020-05-21 00:33:39 / May 21, 2020 @ 12:33 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.49 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -64.5803° West, latitude 18.7809° North, depth = 34.49 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 38 km (24 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -64.5803° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.7809° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 40km 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 2020-05-21 00:33:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-21 00:45:08 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 271 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 ,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 0.815 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us70009m5i Id of event.
Event Code 70009m5i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70009m5i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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