A minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) strikes 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Saturday. Global time and date of event 06/05/18 / 2018-05-06 05:23:31 / May 6, 2018 @ 5:23 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -155.2388306° West, latitude 19.303833° North, depth = 1.14 km. The temblor was detected at 19:23:31 / 7:23 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70122466. Id of event: hv70122466. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.14 km (1 miles).
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). Event epicenter was 50 km (31 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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