A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was picked up at 04:47:46 / 4:47 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/07/18 / 2018-07-16 14:47:46 / July 16, 2018 @ 2:47 pm. Id of earthquake: hv70431452. Event ids that are associated: hv70431452. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of -0.14 km (-0 miles). Exact location, longitude -155.2848358° West, latitude 19.4103336° North, depth = -0.14 km.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo. Event epicenter was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 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), 73 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-seven, in the last 10 days seven hundred and thirty, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and fourty-three and in the last 365 days three thousand, five hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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