A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) was reported 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018182017. Unique identifier: pr2018182017. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40 km (25 miles). Exact location of event, depth 40 km, -64.6315° West, 19.1345° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/07/18 / 2018-07-01 04:37:55 / July 1, 2018 @ 4:37 am. The temblor was picked up at 00:37:55 / 12:37 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: 79 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.
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