A minor earthquake magnitude 3.22 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.35 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.22-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:42:23 / 7:42 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv70283051. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70283051. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/06/18 / 2018-06-18 05:42:23 / June 18, 2018 @ 5:42 am. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2591705 West, latitude 19.4085007 North, depth = 1.35 km.
Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-nine, in the last 10 days four hundred and thirty-six, in the past 30 days eight hundred and twelve and in the last 365 days one thousand, one hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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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