A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Wednesday. Exact location of event, depth 0.77 km, -155.2896729° West, 19.4064999° North. The temblor was picked up at 17:33:34 / 5:33 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/05/18 / 2018-05-24 03:33:34 / May 24, 2018 @ 3:33 am. Id of earthquake: hv70186037. Event ids that are associated: hv70186037. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.77 km (0 miles).
Nearby 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). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 73 km (45 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 sixteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-four, in the past 30 days three hundred and fifty-six and in the last 365 days four hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 6 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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