A minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was reported at 07:02:36 / 7:02 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.28 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: hv70368526. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70368526. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/07/18 / 2018-07-05 17:02:36 / July 5, 2018 @ 5:02 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2746735 West, latitude 19.3911667 North, depth = 0.28 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-eight, in the last 10 days nine hundred and eleven, in the past 30 days two thousand and seventy-six and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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