A minor earthquake magnitude 3.28 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Global time and date of event 03/08/18 / 2018-08-03 20:00:46 / August 3, 2018 @ 8:00 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70517772. Unique identifier: hv70517772. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.14 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.28-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:00:46 / 10:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 0.14 km, -155.2680054° West, 19.3711662° North.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kailua, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days five hundred and ninety, in the past 30 days one thousand, nine hundred and seventy and in the last 365 days four thousand, six hundred and eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 7 km SSW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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