A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.34 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2656708 West, latitude 19.4066658 North, depth = 0.4 km. Unique identifier: hv70252607. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70252607. Global time and date of event 09/06/18 / 2018-06-09 11:20:32 / June 9, 2018 @ 11:20 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.4 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.34-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:20:32 / 1:20 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 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 thirty-four, in the last 10 days two hundred and eighteen, in the past 30 days five hundred and sixty-three and in the last 365 days seven hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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: 3 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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