A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/06/18 / 2018-06-17 13:31:23 / June 17, 2018 @ 1:31 pm. Unique identifier: hv70279971. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70279971. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:31:23 / 3:31 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.83 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 0.83 km, -155.2783356° West, 19.4165001° North.
Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). 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.
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes 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 fourty-two, in the last 10 days four hundred and twenty-three, in the past 30 days seven hundred and ninety-two and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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 WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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