A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/05/18 / 2018-05-29 10:06:30 / May 29, 2018 @ 10:06 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.09 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70204167. Id of event: hv70204167. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2741699 West, latitude 19.4083328 North, depth = 0.09 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:06:30 / 12:06 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalaoa, Waikoloa Village, Waimea (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 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), 82 km (51 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-five, in the past 30 days four hundred and ninety-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: 4 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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