A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Pepeekeo in Hawaii. The temblor was reported at 18:42:52 / 6:42 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv70370836. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70370836. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 6.25 km (4 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -155.2380066 West, latitude 19.8671665 North, depth = 6.25 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/07/18 / 2018-07-06 04:42:52 / July 6, 2018 @ 4:42 am.
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waikoloa Village, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Waimea. Event epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-six, in the last 10 days eight hundred and seventy-five, in the past 30 days two thousand, one hundred and twenty-two and in the last 365 days two thousand, seven hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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