A minor earthquake magnitude 3.78 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, longitude -64.8495 West, latitude 18.8375 North, depth = 19 km. Event id: pr2018255001. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt18255050, us2000hd8j, pr2018255001. The temblor was detected at 00:18:03 / 12:18 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 19 km (12 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 12/09/18 / 2018-09-12 04:18:03 / September 12, 2018 @ 4:18 am.
The epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Cruz Bay, Charlotte Amalie (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 48 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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