A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Fern Acres in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -1.14 km (-1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: hv70456222. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70456222. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/07/18 / 2018-07-21 17:36:54 / July 21, 2018 @ 5:36 pm. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:36:54 / 7:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -155.1238403° West, 19.4698334° North, depth -1.14 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 29 km (18 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-eight, in the last 10 days six hundred and fifty-four, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and seventy-five and in the last 365 days three thousand, eight hundred and ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 6 km SW of Fern Acres, Hawaii.
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