A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Id of earthquake: pr17008000. Event ids that are associated: pr17008000. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/01/17 / 2017-01-08 14:56:24 / January 8, 2017 @ 2:56 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36 km (22 miles). Exact location, longitude -64.3182° West, latitude 19.0762° North, depth = 36 km. The temblor was detected at 10:56:24 / 10:56 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 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 six, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 79 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.
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