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Minor earthquake: M2.96 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii

Earthquake location 19.9757S, -155.7975W


Earthquake location 19.3939991S, -155.2788391WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Unique identifier: hv70342496. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70342496. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.62 km (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -155.2788391 West, latitude 19.3939991 North, depth = 0.62 km. The temblor was detected at 23:05:00 / 11:05 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 30/06/18 / 2018-06-30 09:05:00 / June 30, 2018 @ 9:05 am.

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Earthquake epicenter 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).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ninety-four, in the last 10 days nine hundred and eighty-eight, in the past 30 days one thousand, seven hundred and thirty-four and in the last 365 days two thousand, three hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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