A minor earthquake magnitude 3.62 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii on Friday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30.98 km (19 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.4446716 West, latitude 19.2108326 North, depth = 30.98 km. Unique identifier: hv70118451. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70118451. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/05/18 / 2018-05-05 07:23:23 / May 5, 2018 @ 7:23 am. The 3.62-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:23:23 / 9:23 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalaoa, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 70 km (43 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 sixty-seven, in the last 10 days ninety-five, in the past 30 days ninety-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 3 km E of Pahala, Hawaii.
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