A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -65.047 West, latitude 19.118 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pt19221000. Id of event: pt19221000. The temblor was picked up at 10:21:40 / 10:21 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/08/19 / 2019-08-09 14:21:40 / August 9, 2019 @ 2:21 pm.
Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Cruz Bay, Road Town, Tortola (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 86 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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