A minor earthquake magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2019092004. Unique identifier: pr2019092004. The temblor was detected at 22:24:40 / 10:24 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 50 km (31 miles). Exact location of event, depth 50 km, -64.3736° West, 18.8726° North. Global time and date of event 02/04/19 / 2019-04-02 02:24:40 / April 2, 2019 @ 2:24 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Event epicenter was 54 km (34 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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