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Minor earthquake 2.85 mag, 4 km S of Volcano, Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3863335S, -155.2339935WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40.06 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2339935 West, latitude 19.3863335 North, depth = 40.06 km. The 2.85-magnitude earthquake was detected at 15:50:23 / 3:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/03/18 / 2018-03-17 01:50:23 / March 17, 2018 @ 1:50 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: hv70055701. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70055701.

Earthquake epicenter was 41 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Close 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 Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km S of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2339935° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3863335° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4km 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 2018-03-17 01:50:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-17 01:53:45 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 125 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 34 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01637 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 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 md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID hv70055701 Id of event.
Event Code 70055701 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70055701, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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