A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15246002. Id of event: pr15246002. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/09/15 / 2015-09-03 11:01:37 / September 3, 2015 @ 11:01 am. The temblor was reported at 07:01:37 / 7:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -64.1256 West, latitude 18.3705 North, depth = 45 km.
Event epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cruz Bay, Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 52 km E of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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