A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.68 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2643333° West, 19.4096667° North, depth -0.08 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.08 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/08/18 / 2018-08-02 03:26:48 / August 2, 2018 @ 3:26 am. Id of earthquake: hv70510252. Event ids that are associated: hv70510252. The 3.68-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:26:48 / 5:26 pm (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalaoa, Waikoloa Village, Waimea. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-eight, in the last 10 days six hundred and thirty-seven, in the past 30 days two thousand and fifty-six and in the last 365 days four thousand, six hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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