A minor earthquake magnitude 2.92 (ml/mb) strikes 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Pahala in Hawaii on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.630661 West, latitude 19.2180004 North, depth = 6.41 km. The temblor was detected at 02:41:43 / 2:41 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70512002. Id of event: hv70512002. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.41 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/08/18 / 2018-08-02 12:41:43 / August 2, 2018 @ 12:41 pm.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hawaiian Paradise Park, Kalaoa, Kailua. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 56 km (35 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 seventy-two, in the last 10 days six hundred and twenty-eight, in the past 30 days two thousand and twenty-two and in the last 365 days four thousand, six hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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