A minor earthquake magnitude 2.86 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/08/18 / 2018-08-02 17:18:41 / August 2, 2018 @ 5:18 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.43 km (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 07:18:41 / 7:18 am (local time epicenter). Event id: hv70512837. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70512837. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2676697 West, latitude 19.3961658 North, depth = 0.43 km.
Event epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy, in the last 10 days six hundred and fourty-one, in the past 30 days two thousand and thirty-seven and in the last 365 days four thousand, six hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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