A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.06 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.287674 West, latitude 19.4284992 North, depth = -0.53 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/07/18 / 2018-07-26 12:53:41 / July 26, 2018 @ 12:53 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70479132. Unique identifier: hv70479132. The 3.06-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:53:41 / 2:53 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of -0.53 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and five, in the last 10 days six hundred and seventy-eight, in the past 30 days two thousand, two hundred and ninety-five and in the last 365 days four thousand, two hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 5 km W of Volcano, Hawaii.
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