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Minor earthquake: M2.87 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii

Posted by admin on May 17, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4248333S, -155.2664948WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) strikes 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Wednesday. Event id: hv70165162. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: hv70165162. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 12.01 km (7 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -155.2664948 West, latitude 19.4248333 North, depth = 12.01 km. The temblor was detected at 22:21:51 / 10:21 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/05/18 / 2018-05-17 08:21:51 / May 17, 2018 @ 8:21 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty-seven and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 3 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.87 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2664948° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4248333° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.01 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 3km 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 2018-05-17 08:21:51 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-17 08:27:29 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 127 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 12 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.002498 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 130 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 hv70165162 Id of event.
Event Code 70165162 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70165162, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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