A minor earthquake magnitude 3.19 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60 km (37 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018360019. Unique identifier: pr2018360019. The temblor was reported at 18:21:02 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 26/12/18 / 2018-12-26 22:21:02 / December 26, 2018 @ 10:21 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 60 km, -64.4641° West, 18.8136° North.
Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town. Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days thirty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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: 46 km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.
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