A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.28 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/05/18 / 2018-05-19 07:17:09 / May 19, 2018 @ 7:17 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2676697 West, latitude 19.4003334 North, depth = 0.28 km. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70162796. Unique identifier: hv70162796. The 3.06-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:17:09 / 9:17 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event 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 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-one, in the past 30 days three hundred and ten and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 4 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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