A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location, longitude -155.2915039° West, latitude 19.4093342° North, depth = 0.73 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.73 km (0 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/07/18 / 2018-07-08 06:28:52 / July 8, 2018 @ 6:28 am. Unique identifier: hv70381131. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70381131. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:28:52 / 8:28 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifty, in the last 10 days eight hundred and ninety-seven, in the past 30 days two thousand, two hundred and eighty-four and in the last 365 days three thousand and twelve 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. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 6 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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