A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 21/06/18 / 2018-06-21 02:57:50 / June 21, 2018 @ 2:57 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: hv70297071. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70297071. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.83 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2630005° West, 19.4026661° North, depth 0.83 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:57:50 / 4:57 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-eight, in the last 10 days five hundred and fourty-one, in the past 30 days nine hundred and seventy-seven and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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