A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 79 kilometers (49 miles) from Road Town in British Virgin Islands on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -64.4824 West, latitude 19.1245 North, depth = 57 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 57 km (35 miles). The temblor was detected at 13:00:46 / 1:00 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: pr15220013. Unique identifier: pr15220013. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/08/15 / 2015-08-08 17:00:46 / August 8, 2015 @ 5:00 pm.
Close country/countries, British Virgin Islands (c. 22 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Tortola (c. 23 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tortola (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days eighty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 79 km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands.
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