A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Saturday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15270023. Unique identifier: pr15270023. Exact location of event, longitude -64.661 West, latitude 19.1455 North, depth = 14 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/09/15 / 2015-09-27 02:44:29 / September 27, 2015 @ 2:44 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 22:44:29 / 10:44 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola. Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days eighty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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