A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.33 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, longitude -64.701 West, latitude 18.8726 North, depth = 51 km. The temblor was reported at 20:04:50 / 8:04 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/01/19 / 2019-01-22 00:04:50 / January 22, 2019 @ 12:04 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019022015. Unique identifier: pr2019022015.
Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 49 km (31 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days sixty and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 51 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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