A minor earthquake magnitude 2.94 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was detected at 13:01:55 / 1:01 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.12 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.1796722 West, latitude 19.3178329 North, depth = 9.12 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/05/18 / 2018-05-05 23:01:55 / May 5, 2018 @ 11:01 pm. Unique identifier: hv70121391. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70121391.
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and eleven, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 13 km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii.
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