A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.52 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.937 West, latitude 18.938 North, depth = 37 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 37 km (23 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/08/18 / 2018-08-15 06:00:59 / August 15, 2018 @ 6:00 am. Id of earthquake: pr2018227002. Event ids that are associated: pr2018227002. The temblor was picked up at 02:00:59 / 2:00 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 66 km (41 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Cruz Bay, Charlotte Amalie (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop), British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop), U.S. Virgin Islands (c. 109 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fifty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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