A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/07/15 / 2015-07-31 01:52:35 / July 31, 2015 @ 1:52 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 140 km (87 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.521 West, latitude 18.1611 North, depth = 140 km. Id of earthquake: pr15212001. Event ids that are associated: pr15212001. The temblor was detected at 21:52:35 / 9:52 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Saint Croix, Charlotte Amalie (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). Earthquake epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 30 km SSE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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