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Minor earthquake 3.58 mag, 5 km S of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3851667S, -155.2416667WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.58 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The 3.58-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:17:54 / 12:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/08/16 / 2016-08-24 22:17:54 / August 24, 2016 @ 10:17 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2416667 West, latitude 19.3851667 North, depth = 3.059 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.059 km (2 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: hv61387321. Unique identifier: hv61387321.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

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

Questions or comments?

What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km S of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.58 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2416667° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3851667° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.059 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 2016-08-24 22:17:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-24 22:37:36 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 2.9 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.11 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 reviewed 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 198 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01158 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 102 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 hv61387321 Id of event.
Event Code 61387321 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61387321, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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