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Minor earthquake, 3.01 mag was detected near Volcano in Hawaii


Earthquake location 19.2786674S, -155.1773376WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.01 (ml/mb) was reported 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Volcano in Hawaii on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude -155.1773376 West, latitude 19.2786674 North, depth = 3.49 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/05/18 / 2018-05-21 12:10:10 / May 21, 2018 @ 12:10 pm. Unique identifier: hv70169126. Ids that are associated to the event: hv70169126. The epicenter was at a depth of 3.49 km (2 miles). The 3.01-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:10:10 / 2:10 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 51 km (32 miles) from Hilo (c. 43 300 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Hawaiian Paradise Park (c. 11 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hilo, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Paradise Park.

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days one hundred and fourty-five, in the past 30 days three hundred and thirty and in the last 365 days three hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 18 km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.01 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -155.1773376° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 19.2786674° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.49 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 18km SSE 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 2018-05-21 12:10:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-21 12:16:01 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 139 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 0.1455 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 343 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 hv70169126 Id of event.
Event Code 70169126 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,hv70169126, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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