A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/12/15 / 2015-12-18 18:45:34 / December 18, 2015 @ 6:45 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.139 West, latitude 18.927 North, depth = 40 km. Id of earthquake: pr15352007. Event ids that are associated: pr15352007, us1000486j. The temblor was reported at 14:45:34 / 2:45 pm (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tortola, Road Town, Cruz Bay. Close 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).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days sixty-two and in the last 365 days six hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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. 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: 68 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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