A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact time and date of earthquake 03/08/18 / 2018-08-03 06:15:21 / August 3, 2018 @ 6:15 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 20:15:21 / 8:15 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: hv70515192. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70515192. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2771606 West, latitude 19.4048328 North, depth = 0.75 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.75 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 41 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), 74 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-eight, in the last 10 days six hundred and fifteen, in the past 30 days two thousand and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days four thousand, six hundred and sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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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