A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2633362 West, latitude 19.3904991 North, depth = 3.14 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/18 / 2018-07-16 09:23:10 / July 16, 2018 @ 9:23 am. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70430382. Unique identifier: hv70430382. The temblor was picked up at 23:23:10 / 11:23 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 3.14 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-two, in the last 10 days seven hundred and twenty-one, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and thirty-six and in the last 365 days three thousand, five hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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