A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/08/15 / 2015-08-17 06:03:58 / August 17, 2015 @ 6:03 am. Unique identifier: pr15229004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15229004. Exact location, longitude -64.329° West, latitude 18.7761° North, depth = 14 km. The 3.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:03:58 / 2:03 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 14 km (9 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 47 km (29 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 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 six, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days seventy-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 50 km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.
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