A minor earthquake magnitude 3.27 (ml/mb) strikes 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 14:43:57 / 2:43 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.134 West, latitude 18.9161 North, depth = 27 km. Unique identifier: pr2018273008. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018273008. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/09/18 / 2018-09-30 18:43:57 / September 30, 2018 @ 6:43 pm.
Close 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). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tortola, Road Town, Cruz Bay. Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 67 km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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