A minor earthquake magnitude 3.23 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.31 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: hv70502527. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70502527. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/07/18 / 2018-07-31 11:56:04 / July 31, 2018 @ 11:56 am. The temblor was reported at 01:56:04 / 1:56 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 0.31 km, -155.2666626° West, 19.4231663° North.
Earthquake epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 80 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 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), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kailua, Waimea, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-one, in the last 10 days six hundred and fourty-three, in the past 30 days two thousand, one hundred and twenty-nine and in the last 365 days four thousand, five hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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 WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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