A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.46 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/05/18 / 2018-05-16 11:30:57 / May 16, 2018 @ 11:30 am. The temblor was detected at 01:30:57 / 1:30 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.14 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70161762. Unique identifier: hv70161762. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2859955° West, 19.4186668° North, depth 0.14 km.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalaoa, Waikoloa Village, Waimea (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and sixty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 5 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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