A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Global time and date of event 08/11/15 / 2015-11-08 02:31:57 / November 8, 2015 @ 2:31 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr15312000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15312000. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 22 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:31:57 / 10:31 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 22 km, -64.5205° West, 18.9995° North.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 63 km (39 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days fifty-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 65 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.
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