A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 118 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr16069001. Unique identifier: pr16069001. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.7149 West, latitude 18.378 North, depth = 118 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/03/16 / 2016-03-09 16:27:25 / March 9, 2016 @ 4:27 pm. The temblor was picked up at 12:27:25 / 12:27 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 72 km (45 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Saint Croix, Culebra, Charlotte Amalie. Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km WSW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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