A minor earthquake magnitude 3.24 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/08/18 / 2018-08-03 15:10:51 / August 3, 2018 @ 3:10 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70516877. Unique identifier: hv70516877. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.283493 West, latitude 19.4041672 North, depth = 1.24 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 1.24 km (1 miles). The 3.24-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:10:51 / 5:10 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 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), 80 km (50 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days five hundred and eighty-nine, in the past 30 days one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-seven and in the last 365 days four thousand, six hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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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: 5 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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