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Minor earthquake, 3.16 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.3991661S, -155.2911682WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.16 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of event, longitude -155.2911682 West, latitude 19.3991661 North, depth = 1.47 km. The temblor was picked up at 23:48:02 / 11:48 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1.47 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: hv70161482. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70161482. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/05/18 / 2018-05-16 09:48:02 / May 16, 2018 @ 9:48 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Waimea, Kailua, Hōlualoa. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Kailua (c. 12 000 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Waimea (c. 9 200 pop).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 6 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.16 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2911682° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.3991661° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.47 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6km 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 2018-05-16 09:48:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-16 09:53:41 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 154 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 31 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.009498 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 hv70161482 Id of event.
Event Code 70161482 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70161482, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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