A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Exact location of event, depth 27 km, -64.5933° West, 18.5003° North. The temblor was reported at 00:21:23 / 12:21 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2019325009. Id of event: pr2019325009. Global time and date of event 21/11/19 / 2019-11-21 04:21:23 / November 21, 2019 @ 4:21 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27 km (17 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Culebra, Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 7 km (4 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Nearby 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).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days thirty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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