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Minor earthquake: M2.81 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.4111671S, -155.2076721WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/05/18 / 2018-05-02 01:24:43 / May 2, 2018 @ 1:24 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.6 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: hv70104901. Unique identifier: hv70104901. The 2.81-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:24:43 / 3:24 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 5.6 km, -155.2076721° West, 19.4111671° North.

Earthquake epicenter was 38 km (23 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 3 km SE of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.81 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2076721° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4111671° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km SE 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 2018-05-02 01:24:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-02 01:31:03 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 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 122 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 0.03791 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.25 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 hv70104901 Id of event.
Event Code 70104901 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70104901, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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