A minor earthquake magnitude 2.83 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70166911. Unique identifier: hv70166911. The 2.83-magnitude earthquake was detected at 06:08:19 / 6:08 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 20/05/18 / 2018-05-20 16:08:19 / May 20, 2018 @ 4:08 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -155.274826° West, latitude 19.4074993° North, depth = 0.55 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.55 km (0 miles).
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-two, in the past 30 days three hundred and twenty-two and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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