A minor earthquake magnitude 2.98 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was detected at 19:25:43 / 7:25 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.8 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -155.272171° West, latitude 19.3976669° North, depth = 0.8 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/06/18 / 2018-06-20 05:25:43 / June 20, 2018 @ 5:25 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70292731. Id of event: hv70292731.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 42 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), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-seven, in the last 10 days five hundred and fourteen, in the past 30 days nine hundred and thirty-four and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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