A minor earthquake magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2769928 West, latitude 19.4309998 North, depth = 0.02 km. The 3.15-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:17:31 / 4:17 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/06/18 / 2018-06-15 14:17:31 / June 15, 2018 @ 2:17 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70270576. Unique identifier: hv70270576. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.02 km (0 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waikoloa Village, Kailua, Waimea. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-nine, in the last 10 days three hundred and seventy-one, in the past 30 days seven hundred and seventeen and in the last 365 days one thousand and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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 W of Volcano, Hawaii.
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