A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Thursday. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:08:30 / 8:08 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15246004. Unique identifier: pr15246004. Global time and date of event 03/09/15 / 2015-09-03 12:08:30 / September 3, 2015 @ 12:08 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 75 km (47 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -65.0364 West, latitude 18.6987 North, depth = 75 km.
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). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Luquillo, Fajardo, Isabel Segunda (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days ninety-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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