A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.44 (ml/mb) was reported 82 kilometers (51 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Wednesday. Exact location of event, longitude -64.6681 West, latitude 19.1561 North, depth = 32 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018283006. Id of event: pr2018283006. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32 km (20 miles). The temblor was reported at 15:26:37 / 3:26 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 10/10/18 / 2018-10-10 19:26:37 / October 10, 2018 @ 7:26 pm.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 80 km (50 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop).
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 twenty-three, in the past 30 days fourty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: 82 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.
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