A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Sunday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000g5jc. Id of event: us2000g5jc. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:07:30 / 12:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2536 West, latitude 19.3748 North, depth = 1.62 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.62 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/07/18 / 2018-07-15 10:07:30 / July 15, 2018 @ 10:07 am.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Waimea (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty, in the last 10 days seven hundred and fourty-five, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and sixty-eight and in the last 365 days three thousand, four hundred and sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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 SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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