A minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.61 km (0 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:33:14 / 12:33 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2624969 West, latitude 19.4136658 North, depth = 0.61 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70511602. Id of event: hv70511602. Global time and date of event 02/08/18 / 2018-08-02 10:33:14 / August 2, 2018 @ 10:33 am UTC/GMT.
The epicenter was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 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. Nearby 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. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-five, in the last 10 days six hundred and twenty-nine, in the past 30 days two thousand and fourty and in the last 365 days four thousand, six hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 3 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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