A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/06/16 / 2016-06-10 06:19:37 / June 10, 2016 @ 6:19 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 02:19:37 / 2:19 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 128 km (80 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16162000. Id of event: pr16162000. Exact location of event, longitude -64.7096 West, latitude 18.2714 North, depth = 128 km.
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). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabel Segunda, Culebra, Saint Croix. The epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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