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Minor earthquake, 2.88 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.384S, -155.239WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.88 (ml/mb) strikes 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.769 km (2 miles). Event id: hv61695666. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv61695666. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.239 West, latitude 19.384 North, depth = 2.769 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/04/17 / 2017-04-14 10:16:26 / April 14, 2017 @ 10:16 am. The temblor was detected at 00:16:26 / 12:16 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter 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). Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 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).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km S of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.88 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.239° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.384° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 2.769 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 2017-04-14 10:16:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-04-14 19:51:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 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 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01049 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 44 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 hv61695666 Id of event.
Event Code 61695666 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv61695666, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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