A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 45 km (28 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr15353010. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr15353010. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:33:31 / 3:33 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/12/15 / 2015-12-19 19:33:31 / December 19, 2015 @ 7:33 pm. Exact location, longitude -64.9781° West, latitude 18.9416° North, depth = 45 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Cruz Bay, Road Town. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Event epicenter was 68 km (43 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 68 km (43 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days sixty-six and in the last 365 days six hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 66 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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