A minor earthquake magnitude 3.03 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/07/18 / 2018-07-17 14:42:36 / July 17, 2018 @ 2:42 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.99 km (1 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: hv70436157. Unique identifier: hv70436157. Exact location of event, depth 0.99 km, -155.2848358° West, 19.4226665° North. The 3.03-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:42:36 / 4:42 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa. Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-four, in the last 10 days seven hundred and sixteen, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and fourty-seven and in the last 365 days three thousand, five hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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: 5 km W of Volcano, Hawaii.
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