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Minor earthquake, 3.09 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3248329S, -155.2148285WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.09 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Unique identifier: hv70162402. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70162402. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2148285 West, latitude 19.3248329 North, depth = 4.18 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.18 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/05/18 / 2018-05-16 15:04:17 / May 16, 2018 @ 3:04 pm. The temblor was detected at 05:04:17 / 5:04 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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: 11 km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.09 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2148285° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3248329° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11km SSE 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 2018-05-16 15:04:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-16 15:10:24 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 147 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05425 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 186 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 hv70162402 Id of event.
Event Code 70162402 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70162402, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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