A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:24:19 / 2:24 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: pt18171050. Ids that are associated to the event: pt18171050. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -155.106 West, latitude 19.324 North, depth = 7.4 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.4 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 20/06/18 / 2018-06-20 00:24:19 / June 20, 2018 @ 12:24 am UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 45 km (28 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-six, in the last 10 days five hundred and five, in the past 30 days nine hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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