A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 59 km (37 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: pr15188006. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15188006. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:28:33 / 11:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 59 km, -64.2555° West, 18.509° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/07/15 / 2015-07-07 15:28:33 / July 7, 2015 @ 3:28 pm.
Event epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Charlotte Amalie, Cruz Bay, Road Town (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 39 km ENE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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