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Light earthquake: M4.72 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii

Posted by admin on May 4, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.3968334S, -155.3141632WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.72 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.22 km (1 miles). 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: hv70116616. Id of event: hv70116616. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/05/18 / 2018-05-04 22:48:21 / May 4, 2018 @ 10:48 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.72-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:48:21 / 12:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.3141632 West, latitude 19.3968334 North, depth = 1.22 km.

Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kalaoa (c. 9 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waikoloa Village, Waimea, Kalaoa (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 8 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.72 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.3141632° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3968334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8km WSW 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 22:48:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-04 22:54:08 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 343 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 33 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.02021 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.29 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 hv70116616 Id of event.
Event Code 70116616 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70116616, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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