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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Road Town in British Virgin Islands

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A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Saturday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/05/20 / 2020-05-23 21:47:36 / May 23, 2020 @ 9:47 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: us70009p7w. Unique identifier: us70009p7w. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41.95 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:47:36 / 5:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 41.95 km, -64.6948° West, 18.5669° North.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay (min 5000 pop). Nearby 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). Event epicenter was 17 km (11 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 five, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 18 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-64.6948° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.5669° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	41.95 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18km NNW 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	2020-05-23 21:47:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-05-23 21:55:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.5	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	222	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	0.614	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.44 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	193	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70009p7w	Id of event.
Event Code	70009p7w	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70009p7w,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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