A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 94 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (58 miles) on Sunday. The temblor was reported at 09:47:41 / 9:47 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr17022007. Unique identifier: pr17022007. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/01/17 / 2017-01-22 13:47:41 / January 22, 2017 @ 1:47 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -64.3427 West, latitude 19.2275 North, depth = 22 km.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 94 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.
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