A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The temblor was reported at 07:46:49 / 7:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -65.1682° West, 18.9785° North, depth 32 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/08/15 / 2015-08-02 11:46:49 / August 2, 2015 @ 11:46 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32 km (20 miles). Id of earthquake: pr15214005. Event ids that are associated: pr15214005.
Earthquake epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and four and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 74 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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