Minor earthquake, 3.36 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.36 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Saturday. The temblor was detected at 22:51:54 / 10:51 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 1.69 km, -155.2436676° West, 19.3845005° North. Unique identifier: hv61254411. Ids that are associated to the event: hv61254411. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 1.69 km (1 miles). Global time and date of event 08/05/16 / 2016-05-08 08:51:54 / May 8, 2016 @ 8:51 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 31 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 5 km S of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.36 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2436676° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3845005° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1.69 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5km 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	2016-05-08 08:51:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-08 09:03:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		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	174	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	56	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.007284	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	hv61254411	Id of event.
Event Code	61254411	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61254411,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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