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Light earthquake, 4.91 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.246666S, -155.2148285WA light earthquake magnitude 4.91 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location, longitude -155.2148285° West, latitude 19.246666° North, depth = 6.77 km. The 4.91-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:47:54 / 12:47 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70116601. Id of event: hv70116601. Global time and date of event 04/05/18 / 2018-05-04 22:47:54 / May 4, 2018 @ 10:47 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 6.77 km (4 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Waikoloa Village, Waimea, Kalaoa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days fourty-three, in the past 30 days fourty-five and in the last 365 days ninety-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light 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: 20 km S of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.91 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2148285° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.246666° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 6.77 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km 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 22:47:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-04 22:59:20 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 5.35 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 371 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.03561 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 302 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 hv70116601 Id of event.
Event Code 70116601 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70116601, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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