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Minor earthquake: M3.38 quake has struck near Blowing Point Village in Anguilla

Posted by admin on January 29, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.1855S, -63.9495WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.38 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Blowing Point Village in Anguilla. Exact location of event, depth 82 km, -63.9495° West, 18.1855° North. The 3.38-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:00:58 / 3:00 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2021029002. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2021029002. The epicenter was at a depth of 82 km (51 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/01/21 / 2021-01-29 03:00:58 / January 29, 2021 @ 3:00 am UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 75 km (46 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 90 km W of Blowing Point Village, Anguilla.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.38 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -63.9495° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.1855° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 82 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90 km W of Blowing Point Village, Anguilla Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2021-01-29 03:00:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-29 04:34:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 176 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 5 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8852 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 185 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 pr2021029002 Id of event.
Event Code 2021029002 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2021029002, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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