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Minor earthquake, 2.85 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii

Posted by admin on May 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 19.4073334S, -155.2949982WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.85 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. The temblor was picked up at 17:47:52 / 5:47 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 1.03 km (1 miles). Exact location of event, depth 1.03 km, -155.2949982° West, 19.4073334° North. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70162341. Unique identifier: hv70162341. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/05/18 / 2018-05-19 03:47:52 / May 19, 2018 @ 3:47 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park. Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 6 km WSW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.85 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.2949982° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.4073334° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1.03 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 2018-05-19 03:47:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-19 03:53:29 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 125 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.004778 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.2 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 hv70162341 Id of event.
Event Code 70162341 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70162341, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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