A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/09/15 / 2015-09-06 07:03:07 / September 6, 2015 @ 7:03 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15249016. Id of event: pr15249016. Exact location of event, depth 42 km, -65.1792° West, 18.9568° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 42 km (26 miles). The temblor was detected at 03:03:07 / 3:03 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie. Epicenter of the earthquake was 73 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days five hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 72 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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