A minor earthquake magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) strikes 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 10:50:30 / 10:50 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/07/18 / 2018-07-18 20:50:30 / July 18, 2018 @ 8:50 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 2.6 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: hv70442227. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70442227. Exact location, longitude -155.7774963° West, latitude 19.2798328° North, depth = 2.6 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 Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa, Kailua. The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-three, in the last 10 days six hundred and fifty-seven, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and fourty-nine and in the last 365 days three thousand, six hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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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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: 21 km SSE of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii.
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