A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Leilani Estates in Hawaii. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/05/18 / 2018-05-02 22:47:18 / May 2, 2018 @ 10:47 pm. The temblor was reported at 12:47:18 / 12:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -154.8531647 West, latitude 19.447834 North, depth = 0.91 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.91 km (1 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70108376. Id of event: hv70108376.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 14 km (8 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 7 km ESE of Leilani Estates, Hawaii.
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