A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 33 km (21 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/08/15 / 2015-08-02 11:29:18 / August 2, 2015 @ 11:29 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -65.168 West, latitude 18.9599 North, depth = 33 km. Unique identifier: pr15214004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15214004. The temblor was reported at 07:29:18 / 7:29 am (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 73 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, 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-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 72 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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