A minor earthquake magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/05/18 / 2018-05-21 12:46:04 / May 21, 2018 @ 12:46 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018141007. Id of event: pr2018141007. The epicenter was at a depth of 47 km (29 miles). The temblor was detected at 08:46:04 / 8:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -64.7128 West, latitude 18.7756 North, depth = 47 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town. Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-three 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. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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