A minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact location, longitude -65.0435° West, latitude 18.8451° North, depth = 51 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018199006. Id of event: pr2018199006. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/07/18 / 2018-07-18 15:28:09 / July 18, 2018 @ 3:28 pm. The temblor was detected at 11:28:09 / 11:28 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 51 km (32 miles).
Earthquake epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Tortola, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 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: 56 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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