A minor earthquake magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Honaunau-Napoopoo in Hawaii. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70442332. Id of event: hv70442332. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.78 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 11:19:46 / 11:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/07/18 / 2018-07-18 21:19:46 / July 18, 2018 @ 9:19 pm. Exact location, longitude -155.8309937° West, latitude 19.4231663° North, depth = 6.78 km.
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Waikoloa Village, Kalaoa. Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Waikoloa Village (c. 6 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy, 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 have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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