A minor earthquake magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/07/18 / 2018-07-31 03:42:35 / July 31, 2018 @ 3:42 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34 km (21 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -64.6973° West, 19.1238° North, depth 34 km. The temblor was detected at 23:42:35 / 11:42 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2018212012. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018212012.
Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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