A minor earthquake magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/01/18 / 2018-01-03 11:26:50 / January 3, 2018 @ 11:26 am. The temblor was detected at 07:26:50 / 7:26 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 53 km (33 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -64.3815° West, 18.9301° North, depth 53 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018003003. Unique identifier: pr2018003003.
Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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