A minor earthquake magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) strikes 109 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands (68 miles) on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019047007. Unique identifier: pr2019047007. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 66 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/02/19 / 2019-02-16 04:40:58 / February 16, 2019 @ 4:40 am. The temblor was picked up at 00:40:58 / 12:40 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -64.8163 West, latitude 19.3835 North, depth = 66 km.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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