A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Unique identifier: hv70157417. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70157417. The temblor was picked up at 17:45:16 / 5:45 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.22 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2686667° West, 19.401° North, depth 0.22 km. Global time and date of event 15/05/18 / 2018-05-15 03:45:16 / May 15, 2018 @ 3:45 am UTC/GMT.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and fourty-eight and in the last 365 days three hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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