A minor earthquake magnitude 2.96 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was detected at 04:59:56 / 4:59 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/07/18 / 2018-07-22 14:59:56 / July 22, 2018 @ 2:59 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -155.2671661° West, latitude 19.4248333° North, depth = 0.52 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.52 km (0 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70460462. Id of event: hv70460462.
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Hōlualoa, Hilo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 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 quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-four, in the last 10 days six hundred and sixty-four, in the past 30 days two thousand, four hundred and fifty-five and in the last 365 days three thousand, nine hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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 WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.
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