A minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2911682 West, latitude 19.3991661 North, depth = 1.47 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:48:02 / 11:48 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.47 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: hv70161482. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70161482. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/05/18 / 2018-05-16 09:48:02 / May 16, 2018 @ 9:48 am UTC/GMT.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-nine, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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