A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.93 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.284668 West, latitude 19.4221668 North, depth = 0.93 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:39:44 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.93 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 31/07/18 / 2018-07-31 07:39:44 / July 31, 2018 @ 7:39 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70501642. Id of event: hv70501642.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake 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), 78 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-nine, in the last 10 days six hundred and fifty-one, in the past 30 days two thousand, one hundred and twenty-one and in the last 365 days four thousand, five hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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: 5 km W of Volcano, Hawaii.
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