A minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Global time and date of event 16/07/19 / 2019-07-16 04:13:06 / July 16, 2019 @ 4:13 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.8641 West, latitude 18.1268 North, depth = 152 km. The temblor was reported at 00:13:06 / 12:13 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 152 km (94 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019197001. Id of event: pr2019197001.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isabel Segunda, Culebra, Saint Croix. Close country/countries that might be effected, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (29 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 24 km SSE of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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