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Minor earthquake 2.88 mag, 17 km ESE of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3441658S, -155.0930023WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Id of earthquake: hv61551731. Event ids that are associated: hv61551731. Exact location of event, longitude -155.0930023 West, latitude 19.3441658 North, depth = 0.01 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.01 km (0 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/01/17 / 2017-01-08 00:21:07 / January 8, 2017 @ 12:21 am. The 2.88-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:21:07 / 2:21 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 17 km ESE of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.0930023° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3441658° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 0.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km ESE 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 2017-01-08 00:21:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-08 00:26:53 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 128 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 8 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05075 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 195 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 hv61551731 Id of event.
Event Code 61551731 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61551731, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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