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Minor earthquake 3.72 mag, 14 km S of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3029995S, -155.2201691WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.72 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2201691 West, latitude 19.3029995 North, depth = 7.76 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.76 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: hv61021481. Unique identifier: hv61021481. Global time and date of event 27/08/15 / 2015-08-27 14:39:19 / August 27, 2015 @ 2:39 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.72-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:39:19 / 4:39 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 49 km (31 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 14 km S of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.72 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2201691° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3029995° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.76 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14km S of Volcano, Hawaii Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-08-27 14:39:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-27 14:51:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.15 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status automatic Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 214 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network hv The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,hv, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 63 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02206 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv61021481 Id of event.
Event Code 61021481 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61021481, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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