A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact location, longitude -64.98° West, latitude 18.8226° North, depth = 16 km. Global time and date of event 13/09/19 / 2019-09-13 07:26:35 / September 13, 2019 @ 7:26 am UTC/GMT. The 2.94-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:26:35 / 3:26 am (local time epicenter). Event id: pr2019256003. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019256003. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 16 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearby country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Tortola, Road Town (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 eight, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: 53 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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