Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag strikes near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact location of earthquake, -155.2873383° West, 19.4004993° North, depth 0.87 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 18/05/18 / 2018-05-18 23:52:10 / May 18, 2018 @ 11:52 pm UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70161861. Unique identifier: hv70161861. The epicenter was at a depth of 0.87 km (1 miles). The temblor was reported at 13:52:10 / 1:52 pm (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-five, in the past 30 days three hundred and three and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2873383° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.4004993° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.87 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	2018-05-18 23:52:10	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-18 23:57:47	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	129	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.01219	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.12 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	33	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	hv70161861	Id of event.
Event Code	70161861	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70161861,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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