A minor earthquake magnitude 3.47 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/07/18 / 2018-07-28 09:51:57 / July 28, 2018 @ 9:51 am. Id of earthquake: hv70487992. Event ids that are associated: hv70487992. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2823334 West, latitude 19.4226665 North, depth = 0.72 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:51:57 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.72 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 78 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), 81 km (50 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalaoa, Waikoloa Village, Waimea (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-four, in the last 10 days six hundred and eighty-three, in the past 30 days two thousand, two hundred and sixteen and in the last 365 days four thousand, three hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 4 km W of Volcano, Hawaii.
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