A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.42 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 16:42:20 / 4:42 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 18/06/18 / 2018-06-18 02:42:20 / June 18, 2018 @ 2:42 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: hv70282431. Event ids that are associated: hv70282431. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2838287 West, latitude 19.4088326 North, depth = 0.42 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-one, in the last 10 days four hundred and thirty-nine, in the past 30 days eight hundred and five and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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