A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Unique identifier: pr16339004. Ids that are associated to the event: pr16339004. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/12/16 / 2016-12-04 07:55:01 / December 4, 2016 @ 7:55 am. The temblor was picked up at 03:55:01 / 3:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.582 West, latitude 19.1256 North, depth = 41 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41 km (25 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola.
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 78 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.
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