A minor earthquake magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, Virgin Islands region kilometers (0 miles) from Virgin Islands region. Exact location of earthquake, -64.2933° West, 18.6911° North, depth 67 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:10:43 / 8:10 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 67 km (42 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 21/11/18 / 2018-11-21 08:10:43 / November 21, 2018 @ 8:10 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018325003. Unique identifier: pr2018325003.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 43 km (27 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 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 fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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