A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/05/19 / 2019-05-26 00:05:46 / May 26, 2019 @ 12:05 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: pr2019146000. Event ids that are associated: pr2019146000. Exact location, longitude -64.8811° West, latitude 18.9261° North, depth = 30 km. The 2.86-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:05:46 / 8:05 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 30 km (19 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cruz Bay, Charlotte Amalie, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 62 km (38 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days four hundred and sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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