A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location, longitude -155.277832° West, latitude 19.4053326° North, depth = -0.05 km. Id of earthquake: hv70410012. Event ids that are associated: hv70410012. The temblor was picked up at 16:23:19 / 4:23 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of -0.05 km (-0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/07/18 / 2018-07-12 02:23:19 / July 12, 2018 @ 2:23 am UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-five, in the last 10 days seven hundred and sixty-six, in the past 30 days two thousand, three hundred and eighty-seven and in the last 365 days three thousand, two hundred and fourty-one 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 earthquakes 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: 5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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