A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was reported at 06:43:19 / 6:43 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv70240087. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70240087. Global time and date of event 06/06/18 / 2018-06-06 16:43:19 / June 6, 2018 @ 4:43 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.39 km (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -155.2706604 West, latitude 19.4025002 North, depth = 0.39 km.
Epicenter of the event was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety, in the past 30 days four hundred and eighty-five and in the last 365 days six hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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