A minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70297566. Id of event: hv70297566. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/06/18 / 2018-06-21 05:23:52 / June 21, 2018 @ 5:23 am UTC/GMT. The 2.93-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:23:52 / 7:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -155.2783356° West, latitude 19.4216671° North, depth = 0.73 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.73 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface.
The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 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-one, in the last 10 days five hundred and fourty-five, in the past 30 days nine hundred and eighty-four and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 4 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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