A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The temblor was picked up at 02:25:35 / 2:25 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15266002. Unique identifier: pr15266002. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/09/15 / 2015-09-23 06:25:35 / September 23, 2015 @ 6:25 am. Exact location, longitude -65.1025° West, latitude 18.999° North, depth = 14 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tortola, Road Town, Cruz Bay (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). 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).
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 74 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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