A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Event id: pr16125001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16125001. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/05/16 / 2016-05-04 06:15:17 / May 4, 2016 @ 6:15 am. The temblor was detected at 02:15:17 / 2:15 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.5173 West, latitude 18.9379 North, depth = 24 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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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: 58 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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