A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.3 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 24/07/18 / 2018-07-24 14:53:35 / July 24, 2018 @ 2:53 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 04:53:35 / 4:53 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv70470127. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70470127. Exact location, longitude -155.2631683° West, latitude 19.4048328° North, depth = 0.3 km.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-five, in the last 10 days six hundred and ninety-five, in the past 30 days two thousand, three hundred and seventy-nine and in the last 365 days four thousand and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 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: 3 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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