A minor earthquake magnitude 3.39 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. The 3.39-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:47:25 / 2:47 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 31/01/19 / 2019-01-31 18:47:25 / January 31, 2019 @ 6:47 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 50 km (31 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019031024. Unique identifier: pr2019031024. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.18 West, latitude 18.6408 North, depth = 50 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Road Town, Tortola. Close country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 50 km (31 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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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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: 52 km ENE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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