A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Global time and date of event 13/05/18 / 2018-05-13 00:00:53 / May 13, 2018 @ 12:00 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: pr2018133000. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018133000. The temblor was picked up at 20:00:53 / 8:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -65.144° West, latitude 18.9535° North, depth = 10 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tortola, Road Town, Cruz Bay. Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 81 km (50 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-five 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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: 71 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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