A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/07/18 / 2018-07-28 10:27:31 / July 28, 2018 @ 10:27 am. Unique identifier: hv70488102. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70488102. Exact location, longitude -155.2700043° West, latitude 19.4276676° North, depth = 1.32 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1.32 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 2.96-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:27:31 / 12:27 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-eight, in the last 10 days six hundred and eighty-six, in the past 30 days two thousand, two hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days four thousand, three hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 3 km W of Volcano, Hawaii.
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