A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/12/18 / 2018-12-26 18:19:26 / December 26, 2018 @ 6:19 pm. The temblor was picked up at 14:19:26 / 2:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.6891 West, latitude 19.0108 North, depth = 93 km. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018360016. Unique identifier: pr2018360016. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 93 km (58 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cruz Bay, Road Town, Tortola. Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.
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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: 66 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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