A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14 km (9 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/12/15 / 2015-12-02 13:14:35 / December 2, 2015 @ 1:14 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 09:14:35 / 9:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 14 km, -64.5593° West, 18.8757° North. All ids that are associated to the event: pr15336002. Unique identifier: pr15336002.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Event epicenter was 49 km (30 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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