A minor earthquake magnitude 3.52 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact location, longitude -64.5223° West, latitude 18.9523° North, depth = 35 km. Unique identifier: pr2018330001. Ids that are associated to the event: pr2018330001. The temblor was reported at 03:24:27 / 3:24 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/11/18 / 2018-11-26 07:24:27 / November 26, 2018 @ 7:24 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 60 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.
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