A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Tuesday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.07 km (1 miles). The 2.89-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:49:22 / 8:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -155.2575073° West, 19.4073334° North, depth 1.07 km. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70207937. Unique identifier: hv70207937. Global time and date of event 30/05/18 / 2018-05-30 06:49:22 / May 30, 2018 @ 6:49 am UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-eight, in the past 30 days five hundred and five and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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