A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was reported at 13:48:49 / 1:48 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 28/07/18 / 2018-07-28 23:48:49 / July 28, 2018 @ 11:48 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2773285 West, latitude 19.4138336 North, depth = 1.76 km. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70490637. Unique identifier: hv70490637. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.76 km (1 miles).
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 earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 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), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-five, in the last 10 days six hundred and eighty, in the past 30 days two thousand, one hundred and eighty-two and in the last 365 days four thousand, three hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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: 4 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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