Minor earthquake: M2.89 quake has struck near Volcano in Hawaii

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.89 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/05/18 / 2018-05-19 03:47:00 / May 19, 2018 @ 3:47 am. The 2.89-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:47:00 / 5:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -155.2896729 West, latitude 19.3978329 North, depth = 0.78 km. All ids that are associated to the event: hv70162336. Unique identifier: hv70162336. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 0.78 km (0 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 42 km (26 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 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), 73 km (46 miles) from Hōlualoa (c. 8 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hōlualoa, Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 was reported nearby.

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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. 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 SW of Volcano, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.89 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2896729° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	19.3978329° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.78 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6km SW 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 03:47:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-05-19 03:52:39	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	128	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	36	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.008793	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	38	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	hv70162336	Id of event.
Event Code	70162336	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv70162336,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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