A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The temblor was picked up at 06:10:31 / 6:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/10/16 / 2016-10-19 10:10:31 / October 19, 2016 @ 10:10 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr16293010. Id of event: pr16293010. Exact location of event, longitude -64.1218 West, latitude 18.2019 North, depth = 6 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (36 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). 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 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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