A minor earthquake magnitude 3.13 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Charlotte Amalie in U.S. Virgin Islands. All ids that are associated to the event: pr2018330000. Unique identifier: pr2018330000. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/11/18 / 2018-11-26 00:14:16 / November 26, 2018 @ 12:14 am. The epicenter was at a depth of 18 km (11 miles). The temblor was picked up at 20:14:16 / 8:14 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -65.0636 West, latitude 18.883 North, depth = 18 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tortola, Culebra, Road Town (min 5000 pop). 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). Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Charlotte Amalie (c. 20 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Road Town (c. 8 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Cruz Bay (c. 2 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Culebra (c. 1 500 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 seventeen, in the past 30 days thirty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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