A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands. Unique identifier: pr15248003. Ids that are associated to the event: pr15248003. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.4011 West, latitude 18.9811 North, depth = 33 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 33 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/09/15 / 2015-09-05 02:31:52 / September 5, 2015 @ 2:31 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 22:31:52 / 10:31 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Road Town, Tortola. Earthquake epicenter was 64 km (40 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days eighteen, in the past 30 days eighty-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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