A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was reported at 01:57:24 / 1:57 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: hv70469527. Unique identifier: hv70469527. The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.4 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2708282° West, 19.4160004° North, depth -0.4 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/07/18 / 2018-07-24 11:57:24 / July 24, 2018 @ 11:57 am.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake 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), 75 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-four, in the last 10 days six hundred and seventy-six, in the past 30 days two thousand, three hundred and seventy and in the last 365 days four thousand and sixty-five 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. 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 WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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