A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. The epicenter was at a depth of 15.98 km (10 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/04/24 / 2024-04-24 19:05:14 / April 24, 2024 @ 7:05 pm. Unique identifier: pr71446433. Ids that are associated to the event: pr71446433. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.956833333333 West, latitude 18.0845 North, depth = 15.98 km. The temblor was picked up at 19:05:14 / 7:05 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fajardo, Ceiba, Tortola (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Saint Croix (c. 50 600 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Fajardo (c. 34 100 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Isabel Segunda (c. 9 300 pop). 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).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km S of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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