A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The 2.87-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:36:42 / 2:36 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 05/07/18 / 2018-07-05 12:36:42 / July 5, 2018 @ 12:36 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70367576. Id of event: hv70367576. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.43 km (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -155.2611694 West, latitude 19.4008331 North, depth = 0.43 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 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-three, in the last 10 days nine hundred and twelve, in the past 30 days two thousand and sixty-seven and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and twenty 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. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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 SW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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