A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 56 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/08/15 / 2015-08-22 05:26:58 / August 22, 2015 @ 5:26 am. Id of earthquake: pr15234006. Event ids that are associated: pr15234006. The 3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:26:58 / 1:26 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -64.9858 West, latitude 18.8826 North, depth = 56 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Cruz Bay, Tortola (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).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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