A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Monday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15222020. Unique identifier: pr15222020. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/08/15 / 2015-08-10 21:15:53 / August 10, 2015 @ 9:15 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -64.963 West, latitude 18.874 North, depth = 15 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 15 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:15:53 / 5:15 pm (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Cruz Bay, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and nineteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 58 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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