Minor earthquake, 3.17 mag has occurred near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.17 (ml/mb) was reported 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Sunday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.11 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 0.11 km, -155.2801666° West, 19.4111671° North. Global time and date of event 14/05/18 / 2018-05-14 06:40:33 / May 14, 2018 @ 6:40 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 20:40:33 / 8:40 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: hv70154987. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70154987.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 41 km (25 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 4 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.17 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2801666° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4111671° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km 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	2018-05-14 06:40:33	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-14 07:01:31	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	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	155	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.001118	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.31 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61	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	hv70154987	Id of event.
Event Code	70154987	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70154987,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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