A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Thursday. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2788391 West, latitude 19.3928337 North, depth = -0.2 km. Event id: hv70513192. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70513192. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/08/18 / 2018-08-02 19:20:39 / August 2, 2018 @ 7:20 pm. The temblor was picked up at 09:20:39 / 9:20 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly -0.2 km (-0 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 35 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 (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 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 have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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