A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude -155.2720032° West, latitude 19.3904991° North, depth = 0.29 km. Id of earthquake: hv70509542. Event ids that are associated: hv70509542. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.29 km (0 miles). The temblor was picked up at 13:25:36 / 1:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/08/18 / 2018-08-01 23:25:36 / August 1, 2018 @ 11:25 pm.
Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-four, in the last 10 days six hundred and thirty, in the past 30 days two thousand and fourty-nine and in the last 365 days four thousand, six hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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: 5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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