A minor earthquake magnitude 2.97 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.24 km (1 miles). Event id: hv70480772. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70480772. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/07/18 / 2018-07-26 20:36:49 / July 26, 2018 @ 8:36 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.274826 West, latitude 19.4011669 North, depth = 1.24 km. The temblor was detected at 10:36:49 / 10:36 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and six, in the last 10 days six hundred and seventy-three, in the past 30 days two thousand, two hundred and eighty-seven and in the last 365 days four thousand, two hundred and fourty 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: 5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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