A minor earthquake magnitude 2.84 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Saturday. The temblor was reported at 16:54:15 / 4:54 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 02:54:15 / August 5, 2018 @ 2:54 am. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2774963 West, latitude 19.3938332 North, depth = 0.2 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.2 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70523417. Unique identifier: hv70523417.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 34 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, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days five hundred and seventy-one, in the past 30 days one thousand, nine hundred and sixty-four and in the last 365 days four thousand, seven hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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