A minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 50 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018117000. Unique identifier: pr2018117000. The temblor was detected at 22:20:22 / 10:20 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/04/18 / 2018-04-27 02:20:22 / April 27, 2018 @ 2:20 am. Exact location of event, depth 50 km, -64.8666° West, 19.0113° North.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cruz Bay, Charlotte Amalie, Road Town (min 5000 pop).
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 five, in the past 30 days fifty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-two 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: 70 km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.
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