A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/08/16 / 2016-08-25 11:24:18 / August 25, 2016 @ 11:24 am. The temblor was picked up at 07:24:18 / 7:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.6552 West, latitude 19.1485 North, depth = 67 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 67 km (42 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16238003. Id of event: pr16238003.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 79 km (49 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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