A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Friday. Exact location, longitude -155.2640076° West, latitude 19.4061661° North, depth = 0.85 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/08/18 / 2018-08-03 14:16:41 / August 3, 2018 @ 2:16 pm. The 3.09-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:16:41 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv70516687. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70516687. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.85 km (1 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days five hundred and ninety-three, in the past 30 days one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-eight and in the last 365 days four thousand, six hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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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