A minor earthquake magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/07/18 / 2018-07-15 08:40:42 / July 15, 2018 @ 8:40 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2969971 West, latitude 19.4276676 North, depth = 0.13 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.13 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: hv70425612. Event ids that are associated: hv70425612. The temblor was picked up at 22:40:42 / 10:40 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 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), 77 km (48 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-seven, in the last 10 days seven hundred and fourty-two, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and seventy-four and in the last 365 days three thousand, four hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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 W of Volcano, Hawaii.
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