A minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was detected at 15:40:53 / 3:40 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv70438402. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70438402. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/07/18 / 2018-07-18 01:40:53 / July 18, 2018 @ 1:40 am. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2918396 West, latitude 19.4018326 North, depth = 1.04 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.04 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-seven, in the last 10 days seven hundred and fourty-four, in the past 30 days two thousand, five hundred and sixteen and in the last 365 days three thousand, six hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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