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Light earthquake, 4.59 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii

Posted by admin on May 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.2691669S, -155.2276611WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.59 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.75 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 04/05/18 / 2018-05-04 22:37:18 / May 4, 2018 @ 10:37 pm. Id of earthquake: hv70116566. Event ids that are associated: hv70116566. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2276611 West, latitude 19.2691669 North, depth = 6.75 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:37:18 / 12:37 pm (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 53 km (33 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Waimea, Kalaoa. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days thirty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 17 km S of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.59 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2276611° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2691669° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.75 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 17km 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 2018-05-04 22:37:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-04 22:44:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 50 The total number of felt reports
CDI 6.4 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 356 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.01233 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 214 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 hv70116566 Id of event.
Event Code 70116566 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70116566, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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