A minor earthquake magnitude 3.74 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 96 kilometers (60 miles) from Cruz Bay in U.S. Virgin Islands. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2024299003. Id of event: pr2024299003. The temblor was picked up at 22:07:01 / 10:07 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/10/24 / 2024-10-25 22:07:01 / October 25, 2024 @ 10:07 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 37 km (23 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -64.588° West, 19.1768° North, depth 37 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola. Country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop). Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 96 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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