A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The temblor was picked up at 20:40:34 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/11/15 / 2015-11-17 00:40:34 / November 17, 2015 @ 12:40 am. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15321001. Unique identifier: pr15321001. The epicenter was at a depth of 102 km (63 miles). Exact location, longitude -64.8724° West, latitude 18.2887° North, depth = 102 km.
Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearby 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). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Saint Croix, Isabel Segunda, Culebra.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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: 8 km SE of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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