A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2716675° West, 19.4193325° North, depth 1.54 km. The temblor was reported at 01:21:39 / 1:21 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/06/18 / 2018-06-16 11:21:39 / June 16, 2018 @ 11:21 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.54 km (1 miles). Id of earthquake: hv70274761. Event ids that are associated: hv70274761.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 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), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty, in the last 10 days four hundred and nineteen, in the past 30 days seven hundred and fifty-four and in the last 365 days one thousand and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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 WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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