A minor earthquake magnitude 3.08 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.59 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2708282° West, 19.3939991° North, depth 0.59 km. Event id: hv70513222. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70513222. The 3.08-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:31:32 / 9:31 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 02/08/18 / 2018-08-02 19:31:32 / August 2, 2018 @ 7:31 pm UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-three, in the last 10 days six hundred and fourty-seven, in the past 30 days two thousand and fourty-two and in the last 365 days four thousand, six hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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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