A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/07/18 / 2018-07-15 11:29:57 / July 15, 2018 @ 11:29 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2695007 West, latitude 19.4093342 North, depth = 1.33 km. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:29:57 / 1:29 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv70426207. Unique identifier: hv70426207. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.33 km (1 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 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 eighty-one, in the last 10 days seven hundred and fourty-six, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and sixty-four and in the last 365 days three thousand, four hundred and sixty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.
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