A minor earthquake magnitude 3.11 (ml/mb) strikes 46 kilometers (29 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/10/18 / 2018-10-07 09:28:02 / October 7, 2018 @ 9:28 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -64.9121 West, latitude 18.758 North, depth = 29 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 29 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: pr2018280008. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: pr2018280008. The temblor was detected at 05:28:02 / 5:28 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Culebra, Cruz Bay, Tortola (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 pop). Close 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 two, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-six 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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