A minor earthquake magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 104 km (65 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/07/18 / 2018-07-01 16:21:58 / July 1, 2018 @ 4:21 pm. The 3.33-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:21:58 / 12:21 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018182029. Unique identifier: pr2018182029. Exact location of event, longitude -64.3765 West, latitude 18.4976 North, depth = 104 km.
Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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: 26 km ENE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.
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